Arming slaves : from classical times to the modern age /

Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book is the first to survey the practice broadly across space and time, encompassing the cultures of classical Greece, the ear...

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Corporate Author: Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Other Authors: Brown, Christopher Leslie (Editor), Morgan, Philip D., 1949- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2006.
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