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Slavery in America: A Reader and Guide

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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 at the subject. No other volume that combines both number one and secondary readings covers any such span of time―from the early seventeenth century to the Civil War.

The book begins with a substantial introduction to all the volume that gives an overview of slavery in North The united states. Each and every of the twelve chapters that follow has an introduction that discusses the leading secondary books and articles at the topic in question, followed by an essay and three number one documents. Questions for further study and discussion are included in the chapter introduction, whilst 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, female and male experiences, the main documents come from all kinds of sources: diaries, letters, laws, debates, oral testimonies, travelers’ accounts, inventories, journals, autobiographies, petitions, and novels.

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