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Zusatztext brings together leading scholars in the field who re-examine and present new perspectives on old and new themes, successfully reviews the main debates in broad geographic regions, considers indigenous slavery as well as African slavery, reassesses aspects of comparative and economic history regarding slavery, and presents articles that bring important reflections on new and understudied sources Informationen zum Autor Robert L. Paquette is Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College and co-founder of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization in Clinton, New York. He has published extensively on the history of slavery and his Sugar is Made with Blood won the Elsa Goveia Prize given by the Association of Caribbean Historians for the best book in Caribbean history. Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is author or editor of a dozen books, including Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South, winner of the Organization of American Historians' Avery O. Craven Award and South Carolina Historical Society's Book of the Year in 1997. He is the current President of The Historical Society. Klappentext A series of penetrating! original! and authoritative essays on the history and historiography of the institution of slavery in the New World! written by a team of leading international contributors. Zusammenfassung A series of penetrating, original, and authoritative essays on the history and historiography of the institution of slavery in the New World, written by a team of leading international contributors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Robert L. Paquette and Mark M. Smith: Introduction: Slavery in the Americas; Part I: Places; 1: Francisco Scarano: Spanish Caribbean (Puerto Rico and Spanish Hispaniola); 2: K. Russell Lohse: Mexico and Central America; 3: Peter Blanchard: Spanish South American Mainland; 4: Matt D. Childs and Manuel Barcia Paz: Cuba; 5: Robert W. Slenes: Brazil; 6: Trevor Burnard: British West Indies and Bermuda; 7: Henk den Heijer: Dutch Caribbean; 8: John Garrigus: French Caribbean; 9: Daniel C. Littlefield: United States (Colonial and Revolutionary); 10: Jeff Forret: United States (Early Republic and Antebellum); Part II: Themes! Methods! and Sources; 11: Stephen Behrendt: The Transatlantic Slave Trade; 12: John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard: The Origins of Slavery in the Americas; 13: Kenneth F. Kiple: Biology and African Slavery; 14: Allan Gallay: Indian Slavery; 15: Timothy Lockley: Race and Slavery; 16: Jonathan Daniel Wells: Class and Slavery; 17: Douglas Ambrose: Slavery and Religion; 18: Jeffrey Robert Young: Proslavery Ideology; 19: Paul Finkelman: United States Slave Law; 20: Douglas R. Egerton: Slave Resistance; 21: Kevin Dawson: Slave Culture; 22: Peter Coclanis: The Economics of Slavery; 23: Kirsten Wood: Gender and Slavery; 24: Eugene D. Genovese and Douglas Ambrose: Masters; 25: John Stauffer: Abolition and Antislavery; 26: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara: Emancipation; 27: Stewart R. King: Slavery and the Haitian Revolution; 28: Michael Tadman: Internal Slave Trades; 29: Richard H. Steckel: The Demography of Slavery; 30: Enrico Dal Lago: Comparative Slavery; 31: Kathleen Hilliard: Finding Slave Voices; 32: Theresa Singleton: Archaeology and Slavery; Stanley L. Engerman: Epilogue: Post-Emancipation Adjustments ...
