Incorporating significant and at times controversial literature on questions about the institution of slavery and the social and cultural response of the blacks to their enslavement, this collection reflects recent investigation, offering thirteen readings, eight of them new to this edition, from the most important and stimulating works.
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"Easily the best anthology on the historical literature of slavery."--Clayborne Carson, Stanford University
"Excellent historical and sociological analyses of Black American slavery."--Richard T. Doi, Central Washington University
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Allen Weinstein is at Boston University. Frank Otto Gatell is at University of California, Los Angeles.
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When the Revolutionary generation made its appearance, slavery was still a national institution. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
negative labor incentives, typical plantation slave, nonpecuniary disadvantages, only systematic record, prenuptial intercourse, pecuniary payments, slave personality, zoo slaves, pecuniary income, slave consciousness, marital rules, religious folk songs, slave music, slave songs, slave behavior, pecuniary incentives, birth register, world the slaveholders made, gang labor, slave prices Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, South Carolina, United States, Good Hope, Founding Fathers, North Carolina, Old South, Eugene Genovese, Nat Turner, Thomas Jefferson, Old Testament, Southern Cultivator, Deep South, New Orleans, Latin America, Northwest Ordinance, Sea Islands, Van Evrie, Army Life, Bennet Barrow, Fundamentals of Social Psychology, North America, South Carolinian, The Story of the Jubilee Singers, West African New!
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When the Revolutionary generation made its appearance, slavery was still a national institution. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
negative labor incentives, typical plantation slave, nonpecuniary disadvantages, only systematic record, prenuptial intercourse, pecuniary payments, slave personality, zoo slaves, pecuniary income, slave consciousness, marital rules, religious folk songs, slave music, slave songs, slave behavior, pecuniary incentives, birth register, world the slaveholders made, gang labor, slave prices Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, South Carolina, United States, Good Hope, Founding Fathers, North Carolina, Old South, Eugene Genovese, Nat Turner, Thomas Jefferson, Old Testament, Southern Cultivator, Deep South, New Orleans, Latin America, Northwest Ordinance, Sea Islands, Van Evrie, Army Life, Bennet Barrow, Fundamentals of Social Psychology, North America, South Carolinian, The Story of the Jubilee Singers, West African New!
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- The American Negro by Melville J. Herskovits on 4 pages
- The Myth of The Negro Past by Melville Herskovits on 4 pages
- American Negro Slave Revolts by Herbert Aptheker on 4 pages
- New York by Allan Tannenbaum on 4 pages
- Slavery Times in Kentucky by John W. Coleman on page 73, page 74, and Back Matter
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- Unprofitable Servants: Crown Slaves in Berbice, Guyana, 1803-1831 by Alvin O. Thompson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- What They Didn't Teach You About the Civil War by Mike Wright in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- SLAVERY by Peter J. Parish on page 62, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Stagolee Shot Billy by Cecil Brown in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture) by João José Reis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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