An overview of slavery in America in the period between 1619 and 1877. From its origins in the colonial era, the book explores racial attitudes and the development of the social structures of the old South, the characteristics of slave culture and finally the road to abolition.
| ISBN | 0140241507 | | Pages | 320 | | ISBN13 | 9780140241501
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 240 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Publication date | 23 Feb 1995 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY | 306.3620973 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | |
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Origins and consolidation; the colonial era; the American Revolution; antebellum slavery - organization, control, paternalism; antebellum slavery - slave life; the white South - society, economy, ideology; the end of slavery.
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