Greatest Emancipations

The Astonishing Story of How Slavery Was Abolished in a Single Century, Freeing Over Seven Million Slaves For millennia, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then, in a remarkable turn of events, slavery was eradicated in the span of just one century. Greatest Emancipations tells this incredible story, focusing on the countries that accounted for the vast majority of slaves in the west: Haiti, the British Caribbean, the United States, Cuba, and Brazil. Author Jim Powell offers surprising insi