| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

David Brion Davis. Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2003. Pp. 115. $18.95.

Delivered in 2002 as the Nathan I. Huggins Lectures at Harvard University, the three chapters of this short book offer smart aperçus, insightful nuggets from the master historian of comparative slavery. As the title suggests, David Brion Davis aims to make his reader rethink context, particularly of space and time. Thus, the first chapter takes a bird's-eye, panoramic view of the origins of New World slavery, ranging over centuries and most of the globe; the second is a worm's-eye, microcosmic look at a single year, 1819, which Davis sees as a critical "foretaste of what American slaveholders and abolitionists would be up against" (p. 2); and the final chapter, reverting to a wider lens, probes African-American abolitionism and the overreaction of southern leaders, which Davis believes stemmed from their "fixation on the Caribbean" (p. 3). The chapters move forward in time and extend the limits of the North American continent. Using cinemascope, microscope, and telescope, Davis reveals North American slavery in a new light.

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