Wiley Blackwell Readers in American Soci Slavery and Emancipation (Hardcover)

Slavery and Emancipation is a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South combining recent historical research with period documents. The most comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in America. Combines recent historical research with period documents to bring both immediacy and perspective to the origins principles realities and aftermath of African-American slavery. Includes the colonial foundations of slavery the master-slave relationship the cultural world of the planters the slave community and slave resistance and rebellion. Each section contains one major article by a prominent historian and three primary documents drawn from plantation records travellers accounts slave narratives autobiographies statute law diaries letters and investigative reports.