Presents the history of slavery in America from colonial times through the U.S. Civil War.
Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner have been especially controversial. Almost four decades ago, in “The Vesey Plot: A Reconsideration,” Journal of Southern History, XXX (May 1964), 143—61, Richard C. Wade questioned whether the Vesey ...
The book begins with a substantial introduction to the entire volume that gives an overview of slavery in North America.
James Curry, “Narrative of James Curry, a Fugitive Slave” (originally printed in the Liberator, January 10, 1840), in Slave Testimony: Two Centuries ofLetters, Speeches, Interviews, and Autobiographies, ed.
Isaac Shelby to Henry Knox, January 10, 1794, Miscellaneous Shelby Papers, FHS; The Memorial of William Whitly to the Representatives of the People of Kentucky in General Assembly, n.d., Shelby Family Papers, FHS; Reginald Horsman, ...
Chronicles the lives of Africans as slaves in America through the eve of the Civil War
Written as a narrative history of slavery within the United States, Unrequited Toil details how an institution that seemed to be disappearing at the end of the American Revolution rose to become the most contested and valuable economic ...
But Francis Bolton, Edward Grundon or Grindon, William Cowse, William English, Christopher Barker, Gilbert Peppett, and John Rowe were clearly resident and not listed. It seems likely from these samples that the I624 list is short by at ...
Hand Book of Alabama: A Complete Index to the State, with Map. Birmingham: Roberts and Son, 1892. ... Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, Mass. ... New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
This epic story, told by a master historian, provides a rich understanding of the experience of African-American slaves, an experience that continues to mobilize American thought and passions today.
These essays, by some of the most prominent young historians writing about slavery, fill gaps in our understanding of such subjects as enslaved women, the Atlantic and internal slave trades, the relationships between Indians and enslaved ...