| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 416 pages) |
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Blackwell readers in American social and cultural history |
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Blackwell readers in American social and cultural history.
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| Contents |
Colonial origins: race and slavery -- From African to African American: slave adaptation to the new world -- The formation of the master class -- Slavery and the American Revolution -- The growth of the cotton kingdom -- The world of the planters -- Life within the big house -- Masters and slaves: paternalism and exploitation -- Life in the slave quarters -- Slave resistance and slave rebellion -- The abolitionist impulse -- The politics of slavery -- Secession and Civil War -- Emancipation and the destruction of slavery |
| Summary |
Slavery and Emancipation is the most up-to-date and comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South. It combines recent historical research with period documents to bring both immediacy and perspective to the origins, principles, realities, and aftermath of African-American slavery. Central topics include the colonial foundations of slavery, the master - slave relationship, the cultural world of the planters, the slave community, and slave resistance and rebellion. Each topical section contains one major article by a prominent historian, and three primary documents. The documents have been drawn from a wide variety of sources, including plantation records, travellers' accounts, slave narratives, autobiographies, statute law, diaries, letters, and investigative reports. This material has been carefully chosen to benefit students and readers of the history of African-American slavery and emancipation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- Sources.
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Plantation life -- Southern States -- History.
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Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Slavery -- United States -- History.
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Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Sources.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dal Lago, Enrico, 1966-
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Halpern, Rick.
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| ISBN |
047075463X (electronic bk.) |
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0631217355 (paperback; alk. paper) |
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9780470754634 (electronic bk.) |
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9780631217350 (paperback; alk. paper) |
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(alk. paper) |
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(paperback; alk. paper) |
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