Slavery in America: A Reader and Guide

Morgan, Kenneth [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0820327921 / ISBN 13: 9780820327921

Published by University of Georgia Press, 2005

About this Item

Softcover. Light wear. Fine binding and cover. Owner's name on front end page, else unmarked. "I am impressed by the organization, content, and coverage of this reader. The editor has blended most, if not all, of the latest developments in the field of slavery studies with appropriate documents. He has done so in a very organized and logical fashion, and I would not hesitate to assign this work in my undergraduate classes." - Christine Daniels, Michigan State University.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Slavery in America: A Reader and Guide
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820327921
• ISBN 13: 9780820327921
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 30 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • American History and Politics

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

KENNETH MORGAN is a professor of history, and director of studies in history, in the American Studies and History Department at Brunel University in West London. The many books he has written or edited include Slavery, Atlantic Trade, and the British Economy, 1660-1800; Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America; The Early Modern Atlantic Economy; and The British Transatlantic Slave Trade (4 vols.).