The Holocaust and new world slavery : a comparative history /

This volume offers the first, in-depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world slavery. Providing a reliable view of the relevant issues, and based on a broad and comprehensive set of data and evidence, Steven Katz analyzes the fundamental differences between the two systems and reevaluates our un...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Katz, Steven T., 1944- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • Volume 1: Understanding Black slavery in the new world
  • The middle passage
  • Considering slave demography in the new world
  • Reproduction and miscegenation
  • Breeding
  • The conditions of bondage
  • The conditions of bondage: beyond basic necessities
  • Manumission
  • American slave law
  • Black slavery and the Holocaust: comparing the fate of women and children
  • German labor needs and the murder of Jewish men and women
  • Devaluing Jewish labor
  • Rape and Rassenschande during the Holocaust
  • Murdering Jewish children.