audiobook The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade: Britain; Brazil and the Slave Trade Question (Cambridge Latin American Studies) by Leslie Bethell in History

Description

This is the first of a series of documentary histories of emancipation designed to tell the story of the transit of black people from slavery to freedom in the United States. The series will provide a social history of emancipation; written in the words of the emancipated. This volume explains how black military service helped to destroy slavery; and how the experience of soldiering shaped the life of black people (in the army and out) during and after the war; it also provides a social history of black soldiers.