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Informationen zum Autor 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 Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History (2002). Enrico Dal Lago is Lecturer in American History at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is the co-editor of The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History (2002), and author of the forthcoming Southern Elites: American Planters and Southern Italian Noblemen, 1815-1865 . Klappentext 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, realities, and aftermath of African-American slavery. Central topics include the colonial foundations of slavery, the master-slave relationship, the cultural world of the planters, the slave community, and slave resistance and rebellion. Each topical section contains one major article by a prominent historian, and three primary documents. The documents have been drawn from a wide variety of sources, including plantation records, travellers' accounts, slave narratives, autobiographies, statute law, diaries, letters, and investigative reports. This material has been carefully chosen to benefit students and readers of the history of African-American slavery and emancipation. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Part I: Colonial Origins: Race and Slavery: . Introduction. Documents:. A. The First Blacks Arrive In Virginia (1619). B. Slavery Becomes A Legal Fact In Virginia (17th Century Statutes). C. South Carolina Restricts The Liberty Of Slaves (1740). Article: Philip D. Morgan, Two Infant Slave Societies In The Chesapeake And The Lowcountry (From Slave Counterpoint, 1998). Part II: From African To African-American: Slave Adaptation To The New World:. Introduction. Documents:. A. Olaudah Equiano Describes His Capture (1760). B. Slave Cargo List, South Carolina (1730). C. List Of Fugitive Slave Skills, Virginia (18th Century). Article: Ira Berlin, The Plantation Generation Of African Americans (From Many Thousands Gone, 1998). Part III: The Formation of The Master Class:. Introduction. Documents:. A. William Byrd Ii Describes The Patriarchal Ideal (1726). B. Reverend Jarratt Observes The Life-Style Of Virginia's Planters (1750). C. Thomas Jefferson Gives Instructions To His Overseer (1774-1790). Article: Kathy Brown, Masters And Mistresses In Colonial Virginia (From Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, And Anxious Patriarchs, 1996). Part IV: Slavery and The American Revolution:. Introduction. Documents:. A. Lord Dunmore's Proclamation Freeing Slaves In Virginia (1775). B. Virginia's Manumission Law (1782). C. Thomas Jefferson Expresses His Unease Over Slavery (1782). Article: Peter Kolchin, Slavery And The American Revolution (From American Slavery, 1993). Part V: The Growth of The Cotton Kingdom:. Introduction. Documents:. A. Joseph Baldwin On Cotton Planters In A...
