A Documentary history of slavery in North America
Willie Lee Rose (Editor, Writer of added commentary)
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 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. The documents reveal the individual views, goals, and lives of slaves and their masters
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xvi, 537 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
9780195019766, 9780195019780, 9780820320656, 0195019768, 0195019784, 082032065X
2018110
Slavery in the English colonies of North America
Slavery survives the American Revolution
Revolts, plots, and rumors of plots
Slaves on the block ... slave on the road
The slave and the law
The slave's protest : resistance short of rebellion
The slave's work
Master and man
Men, women, and children
After hours ... beliefs and amusements
Includes songs