Format:
1 online resource (xv, 852 pages)
ISBN:
9781108227483
,
9781108415088
Content:
This volume offers the first, in-depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world slavery. Providing a reliable view of the relevant issues, and based on a broad and comprehensive set of data and evidence, Steven Katz analyzes the fundamental differences between the two systems and re-evaluates our understanding of the Nazi agenda. Among the subjects he examines are: the use of black slaves as workers compared to the Nazi use of Jewish labor; the causes of slave demographic decline and growth in different New World locations; the main features of Jewish life during the Holocaust relative to slave life with regard to such topics as diet, physical punishment, medical care, and the role of religion; the treatment of slave women and children as compared to the treatment of Jewish women and children in the Holocaust. Katz shows that slave women were valued as workers, as reproducers of future slaves, and as sexual objects, and that slave children were valued as commodities. For these reasons, neither slave women nor children were intentionally murdered. By comparison, Jewish slave women and children were viewed as the ultimate racial enemy and therefore had to be exterminated. These and
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108415088
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108415088
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Katz, Steven T., 1944 - The Holocaust and New World slavery Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781108415088
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Europa
;
Judenvernichtung
;
USA
;
Sklaverei
;
Geschichte
DOI:
10.1017/9781108227483
Author information:
Katz, Steven T. 1944-
