| Documentary History of Slavery in North America Revised Edition Contributor(s): Rose, Willie Lee (Editor) |
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ISBN: 082032065X ISBN-13: 9780820320656 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $41.53 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1999 Annotation: Documenting multiple aspects of slavery and its development in North America, this collection provides more than one hundred excerpts from personal accounts, songs, legal documents, diaries, letters, and other written sources. The book assembles a remarkable portrayal of the day-to-day connections between, and among, slaves and their owners across more than two centuries of subjugation and resistance, despair and hope. Beginning with a chronicle of the origins of slavery in the British colonies of North America, the collection traces the growth of the system to the antebellum period and includes accounts of slave revolts, auctions, slave travel and laws, and family life. Intimate as well as comprehensive, the documents reveal the individual views, goals, and lives of slaves and their masters, making this engaging work one of the most respected catalogs of firsthand information about slavery in North America. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Slavery - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 306.362 |
| LCCN: 99025537 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.70 lbs) 560 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rose, Willie Lee: - WILLIE LEE ROSE is the author of Rehearsal for Reconstruction, A Documentary History of Slavery in North America (both Georgia), and Slavery and Freedom. The Willie Lee Rose Prize, sponsored by the Southern Association for Women Historians, was established in her honor. It is awarded annually for the best book on any topic in southern history written by a woman (or women). |