Rick Halpern & Enrico Dal Lago 
Slavery and Emancipation [PDF ebook] 

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.

Об авторе

Rick Halpern is Bissell-Heyd-Associates Chair of American
Studies 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.