Halpern / Dal Lago Slavery and Emancipation

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75463-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History

Slavery and Emancipation is a comprehensive collection ofprimary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding inthe American South combining recent historical research with perioddocuments.
* * The most comprehensive collection of primary and secondaryreadings on the history of slaveholding in America.
* Combines recent historical research with period documents tobring both immediacy and perspective to the origins, principles,realities, and aftermath of African-American slavery.
* Includes the colonial foundations of slavery, the master-slaverelationship, the cultural world of the planters, the slavecommunity, and slave resistance and rebellion.
* Each section contains one major article by a prominenthistorian, and three primary documents drawn from plantationrecords, travellers' accounts, slave narratives, autobiographies,statute law, diaries, letters, and investigative reports.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Halpern, Rick

Dal Lago, Enrico

Über Autor(innen)

Rick Halpern is Bissell-Heyd-Associates Chair of AmericanStudies and a Professor of History at the University of Toronto. Heis the author of Down on the Killing Floor: Black and WhiteWorkers in Chicago's Packinghouses (1997), and co-editorof Racializing Class, Classifying Race: Labour and Difference inBritain, the USA and Africa (2000), and The American Southand the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History(2002).
Enrico Dal Lago is Lecturer in American History at theNational University of Ireland, Galway. He is the co-editor ofThe American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays inComparative History (2002), and author of the forthcomingSouthern Elites: American Planters and Southern ItalianNoblemen, 1815-1865.