This Is A New Release Of The Original 1854 Edition.
This book uses primary source materials to study the institution of slavery in the United States and its role in the Civil War.
Gutman, in Slavery and the Numbers Game (1975), charged them with underrepresenting the large plantations, incorrectly calculating data, and then making erroneous as- sumptions based on their misinterpretation of the evidence.
What can be considered slavery? Should forced labour be considered slavery? Debt-bondage? Child soldiering? Or forced marriage? This book explores the limits of how slavery is understood in law.
Why did it take so long to end slavery in the United States, and what did it mean that the nation existed eighty-eight years as a “house divided against itself,” as Abraham Lincoln put it?
Introduces the essential history of slavery from the American Revolution to post-Civil War Reconstruction in twelve thematic chapters.
Slavery in the United States
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As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States.
It is the story of socially forbidden love between an idealistic young Frenchman and an apparently white American woman with African ancestry.
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.