Description
A comprehensive, contextual presentation of all aspects―social, political, and economic―of slavery in america, from the primary colonization via Reconstruction.
• Ten major essays and 300 A–Z entries cover all aspects of slavery
• Over 100 contributors represent the finest scholarship all over the world at the topic
• An excellent selection of 150 original documents illustrate both fashionable and official attitudes toward slavery
• The huge bibliography is essentially the most complete and up-to-date available