Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this new textbook
is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a
reader of core texts on the subject. No other volume that combines
both primary and secondary readings covers such a span of
time--from the early seventeenth century to the Civil War.
The book begins with a substantial introduction to the entire
volume that gives an overview of slavery in North America. Each of
the twelve chapters that follow has an introduction that discusses
the leading secondary books and articles on the topic in question,
followed by an essay and three primary documents. Questions for
further study and discussion are included in the chapter
introduction, while further readings are suggested in the chapter
bibliography.
Topics covered include slave culture, the slave-based economy,
slavery and the law, slave resistance, pro-slavery ideology,
abolition, and emancipation. The essays, by such eminent historians
as Drew Gilpin Faust, Don E. Fehrenbacher, Eric Foner, John Hope
Franklin, and Sylvia R. Frey, have been selected for their teaching
value and ability to provoke discussion. Drawing on black and
white, male and female experiences, the primary documents come from
a wide variety of sources: diaries, letters, laws, debates, oral
testimonies, travelers' accounts, inventories, journals,
autobiographies, petitions, and novels.
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