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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.
ISBN-13

9780631217343

ISBN-10

0631217347

Weight

1.64 Pounds

Dimensions

6.20 x 1.50 x 9.30 In

List Price

$176.95

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

436 pages

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Published On

2002-11-08


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