Five thousand years of slavery
2011
Book
Traces the practice of slavery throughout the millennia, drawing on historical narratives, personal accounts, and visual sources to cover such examples as the ancient Sumerian practice of selling impoverished children into bondage and the oppression of ninth-century Zanj salt marsh workers.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781101917923 (pbk.)
- 9780887769146
- 0887769144
Description: 168 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm.
Other Title:
- Slavery
- 5000 years of slavery
Notes:
- Canadiana.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 162), Internet addresses and index.
LCCN: 2009938446
Control Number: 736958
Publisher: Toronto : Tundra Books, 2015.Subjects: Slavery -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Other Authors: Willen, Janet.