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.
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.
Über den Autor
Rick Halpern is Bissell-Heyd-Associates Chair of AmericanStudies and a Professor of History at the University of Toronto. He
is the author of Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White
Workers in Chicago’s Packinghouses (1997), and co-editor
of Racializing Class, Classifying Race: Labour and Difference in
Britain, the USA and Africa (2000), and The American South
and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History
(2002).
Enrico Dal Lago is Lecturer in American History at the
National University of Ireland, Galway. He is the co-editor of
The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in
Comparative History (2002), and author of the forthcoming
Southern Elites: American Planters and Southern Italian
Noblemen, 1815-1865.
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Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 432 ● ISBN 9780470754634 ● Dateigröße 23.2 MB ● Herausgeber Rick Halpern & Enrico Dal Lago ● Verlag John Wiley & Sons ● Erscheinungsjahr 2008 ● Ausgabe 1 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 2323870 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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