Slavery in America: A Reader and Guide

Morgan, Kenneth (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0748617965 / ISBN 13: 9780748617968

Edité par Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2005

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2005. xvii, 456pp. "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." There are some marks in pen to the margins of 7 pages but otherwise the book is in excellent condition.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Slavery in America: A Reader and Guide
• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0748617965
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780748617968
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Economics
  • Scottish History
  • Americas (north&south)

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Synopsis

The first Reader and Guide to the subject of slavery in America. It combines both an introduction to the field and a selection of core primary and secondary readings, covering the period from the early seventeenth century to the American Civil War.Divided into 12 sections, it maps on to the semester system, whereby each section can form the core of a particular week’s teaching. The opening and closing sections follow a chronological structure, while the main body of the volume takes a thematic approach, covering the following key areas:• Slavery in the Old South• Slave Life• The Economics of Slavery• Slavery and the Law• Slave Resistance• Pro-Slavery Ideology• The Anti-Slavery Movement• Slavery and ExpansionPrimary documents are drawn from a wide variety of sources: extracts from diaries, letters, laws, debates, oral testimonies, travellers’ accounts, inventories, journals, autobiographies, petitions and novels. Black and white, male and female testimony is drawn upon. The secondary readings have been selected for including important, provocative discussions, based on the editor’s experience of what works well in a teaching environment. Where possible the secondary readings link with the primary documents.As well as an introduction to the volume, each section consists of an introduction, a secondary reading and a selection of shorter primary documents. The introduction to each section introduces the main points of historical discussion, raises important questions and indicates what other writings should be consulted.Key Features• The only combined reader and guide to the subject of slavery in America• Based on the author’s extensive experience of teaching the subject• Includes primary and secondary readings• Covers colonial period and later years – incredibly broad-ranging

À propos de l?auteur

Kenneth Morgan is Professor of History at Brunel University. He is author of British Overseas Expansion (Manchester University Press, forthcoming), Slavery, the Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660-1834 (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Slavery and the British Empire (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), The Birth of Industrial Britain: Economic Change, 1750-1850 (Longman, 1999) and Slavery and Servitude in North America, 1607-1800 (Edinburgh University Press, 2000).