Slavery in American Society (Problems in American Civilization) - Softcover

Goodheart, Lawrence B.; Brown, Richard D.; Rabe, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0669244465 ISBN 13: 9780669244465

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 1992

Synopsis

This anthology reflects the sweeping changes of recent years in historians' views of slavery, featuring essays from the growing fields of social history, women's history, and comparative history.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard D. Brown, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History and Director of the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, is a 1961 graduate of Oberlin College who attended Harvard on a Woodrow Wilson Scholarship, earning his Ph.D. in 1966. Before coming to the University of Connecticut in 1971, he taught as a Fulbright lecturer in France and at Oberlin College. His research and teaching interests have been in the political, social, and cultural history of early America. His current project, "The Challenge of Equality in the Early Republic," employs microhistory and narrative. A past president of the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic and the New England Historical Association, Brown has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0669244465
• ISBN 13: 9780669244465
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 336