Slavery and emancipation /

Slavery and Emancipation is the most up-to-date and comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South. It combines recent historical research with period documents to bring both immediacy and perspective to the origins, principles, realit...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Halpern, Rick, Dal Lago, Enrico, 1966-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
Series:	Blackwell readers in American social and cultural history.
Subjects:	Slavery > United States > History. Slavery > United States > History > Sources. Plantation life > Southern States > History. Plantation life > Southern States > History > Sources. Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States. Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States > History > Sources.
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Table of Contents:

Colonial origins: race and slavery
From African to African American: slave adaptation to the new world
The formation of the master class
Slavery and the American Revolution
The growth of the cotton kingdom
The world of the planters
Life within the big house
Masters and slaves: paternalism and exploitation
Life in the slave quarters
Slave resistance and slave rebellion
The abolitionist impulse
The politics of slavery
Secession and Civil War
Emancipation and the destruction of slavery.