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David Brion Davis is regarded as the best authority on slavery under western culture. His books have won such awards as the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight, you start with the dramatic Amistad case. He looks at slavery in the American South, describing black slaveholding planters; the rise of the Cotton Kingdom; the lifestyle of ordinary slaves; the highly destructive internal, long-distance slave trade; the sexual exploitation of slaves; the emergence of African-American culture; and much more. A definitive history with a writer deeply immersed in the subject, Inhuman Bondage links together the gains of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism.