A Documentary History of Slavery in North America

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Willie Lee Nichols Rose
University of Georgia Press, 1999 - 537 páginas
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.

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INTRODUCTION
3
The First Blacks Arrive in Virginia
15
Virginia Discriminates in the Punishment of Runaways
22
The Reverend Jones Reports on Slavery in the Tobacco
36
Robert Carter Assesses Slave Property
43
Philip Vickers Fithian Observes Slavery in Virginia
51
Saul Revolution Veteran Petitions for Freedom
61
George Tucker Criticizes Jeffersons Views of Racial
76
Weighing In the Cotton and Measuring Out the Punishment
316
Whites and Blacks in a Textile Factory
330
Governor Hammonds Instructions to His Overseer
345
A Small Farmer Describes His Slave Management
360
Slaves Tell Masters What Masters Want To Hear
372
A SlaveOwners Black Supervisors Report
378
Lucy Andrews Petitions To Enter Slavery
390
The White Boys Outgrow Charles
406

A Richmond Editor Calls for a Military Corps
91
Sambas Conspiracy in Louisiana 1763
104
Nat Turners Revolt in Virginia 1831
122
Ethan Allen Andrews Visits a Slave Emporium in Alexandria
137
Maria Perkins Writes of the Sale of Her Child
151
Joseph Holt Ingraham Describes a Slave Sale at Natchez
164
The Alabama Slave Code of 1852
178
Thomas R R Cobb on the Legal Foundations of Slavery
196
Thomas B Chaplin Sits on a Jury of Inquest
210
Blacks and Whites May Celebrate TogetherSometimes
224
Hanging and Quartering in 1733
239
Sheepstealing and Lying Out on St Helena Island
253
Arson by a Virginia House Servant
267
A Bereaved Father Avenges Himself by SelfMutilation
283
Labor and Discipline on a Mississippi Cotton Plantation
289
On a South Carolina Rice Plantation
302
Slavery Develops Stealing in Blacks Bad Temper and Fear
413
A Visit to the Infirmary on Butlers Island
419
A Creole Father Counts His Children
425
Rose Describes Being Forced To Live with Rufus
434
White Women Fear Violence from Slaves
437
A Scientist Assesses Miscegenation in the South
444
Nicey Kinney Fondly Remembers Her Owners on a Small
450
Henry Bibb Tries Conjuration
457
The Reverend Jasper on Life Death and the Origin of Sin
465
Thomas Wentworth Higginson Describes Negro Spirituals
474
Shout Songs Work Songs and Spirituals
488
Christmas the Carnival Season with the Children
500
Singing and Dancing Secular Music in Louisiana
508
Drums and Drumming in Congo Square
514
Brer Rabbit Plays Tricks in South Carolina
517
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Willie Lee Rose is the author of Rehearsal for Reconstruction, A Documentary History of Slavery in North America (both Georgia), and Slavery and Freedom.

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