A Documentary History of Slavery in North America

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Documenting more than one aspects of slavery and its development in North The united states, this collection provides a couple of hundred excerpts from personal accounts, songs, legal documents, diaries, letters, and other written sources. The book assembles a remarkable portrayal of the daily connections between, and among, slaves and their owners across more than two centuries of subjugation and resistance, despair and hope. Beginning with a chronicle of the origins of slavery within the British colonies of North The united states, the collection traces the growth of the system to the antebellum period and includes accounts of slave revolts, auctions, slave commute and laws, and circle of relatives life. Intimate in addition to comprehensive, the documents reveal the individual views, goals, and lives of slaves and their masters, making this engaging work one of the crucial respected catalogs of firsthand details about slavery in North The united states.

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