The Holocaust and New World Slavery
A Comparative History
2 Volume Hardback Set
- Author: Steven T. Katz, Boston University
- Date Published: May 2019
- availability: In stock
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108415088
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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 other findings conclusively demonstrate the uniqueness of the Holocaust compared with other historical instances of slavery.
Read more- The first in depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world slavery
- A fundamental re-examination of Jewish slave labor during World War II
- Fully examines the unique treatment of women and children in the contexts of both new world slavery and the Holocaust
Awards
- Winner, 2020 PROSE Award for World History
Reviews & endorsements
'Comparisons and contrasts, both popular and academic, between slavery and the Holocaust are common but often superficial, even facile. Katz (Boston Univ.), however, succeeds in lifting the discussion to notably higher levels … Highly Recommended.' T. P. Johnson, Choice
See more reviews'… an extensively researched masterwork …' Manus I. Midlarsky, Holocaust and Genocide Studies
'Katz has mastered the literature of two boundless fields and has produced a graphic crime report that jolts the senses and numbs with excess. Immersing himself in documents, data, first hand accounts, and secondary sources that add a layer of analysis to primary voices, he has produced a massive study of two historical realities that, to paraphrase historian Edward Lilenthal, stick in the throat of Western civilization like a fish bone.' Theodore Rosengarten, Yad Vashem
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- Date Published: May 2019
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108415088
- length: 1000 pages
- dimensions: 261 x 182 x 58 mm
- weight: 2kg
- contains: 28 tables
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
1. Understanding black slavery in the New World
2. The middle passage
3. Considering slave demography in the New World
4. Reproduction and miscegenation
5. Breeding
6. The conditions of bondage
7. The conditions of bondage: beyond basic necessities
8. Manumission
9. American slave law
10. Black slavery and the Holocaust: comparing the fate of women and children
11. German labor needs and the murder of Jewish men and women
12. Devaluing Jewish labor
13. Rape and Rassenschande during the Holocaust
14. Murdering Jewish children.
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