This book is a collection of writings exploring the issue of slavery in North America, from the infamous "Middle Passage" to emancipation and includes illuminating documents such as a slave trader's diary, nineteenth-century defenses of slavery, and firsthand accounts of what it meant to be a slave.
General Note
Includes index.
Includes chronology.
Includes glossary.
Content Note
Atlantic slave trade; Beginnings of slavery in english North America; slavery in eighteenth-century North America; Slavery, the Revolution, and the constituion, 1760-1787; Thomas Jefferson and slavery; Revolts and colonization, 1791-1831; Slave owners and the economics of slavery; a 'positive good'; Slaves' work; Slave families and communities; Slave religion and African American culture; resistance after 1831; White abolitionists; Black abolitionists; Slavery and the coming of the civil war; the Civil War and the end of slavery.