Slavery in America - A Reader and Guide Morgan KennethPaperback
Slavery in America - A Reader and Guide Morgan KennethPaperback Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this new textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a…
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Slavery in America - A Reader and Guide Morgan KennethPaperback
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. 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. 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.
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,