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Slavery and Emancipation
Halpern
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Description for Slavery and Emancipation
Paperback. A comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South. Each topical section contains one major article by a prominent historian, and three primary documents. Editor(s): Halpern, Rick; Dal Lago, Enrico. Series: Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History. Num Pages: 432 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; HBJK; HBTS; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 32. Weight in Grams: 630.
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.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History
Number of Pages
436
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631217350
SKU
V9780631217350
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Ref
99-50
About Halpern
Rick Halpern is Bissell-Heyd-Associates Chair of American Studies and a Professor of History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago’s Packinghouses (1997), and co-editor of Racializing Class, Classifying Race: Labour and Difference in Britain, the USA and Africa (2000), and The American South and the Italian ... Read more
Reviews for Slavery and Emancipation
'Slavery and Emancipation is an uncommonly valuable teaching tool for students of American history. Halpern and Dal Lago have judiciously and creatively culled primary and secondary sources that cohere into an important interactive text. Their book traces the evolution of slavery as a virulent force in American life and the hard-fought triumph of emancipation.’ John David Smith, North Carolina State ... Read more