Slavery and Emancipation

Slavery and Emancipation
ISBN-10
047075463X
ISBN-13
9780470754634
Category
History
Pages
432
Language
English
Published
2008-04-15
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Authors
Rick Halpern, Enrico Dal Lago

Description

Slavery and Emancipation is a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South combining recent historical research with period documents. The most comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in America. Combines recent historical research with period documents to bring both immediacy and perspective to the origins, principles, realities, and aftermath of African-American slavery. Includes the colonial foundations of slavery, the master-slave relationship, the cultural world of the planters, the slave community, and slave resistance and rebellion. Each section contains one major article by a prominent historian, and three primary documents drawn from plantation records, travellers' accounts, slave narratives, autobiographies, statute law, diaries, letters, and investigative reports.

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