Slavery and Emancipation is a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South combining recent historical research with period documents.
- The most comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in America.
- Combines recent historical research with period documents to bring both immediacy and perspective to the origins, principles, realities, and aftermath of African-American slavery.
- Includes the colonial foundations of slavery, the master-slave relationship, the cultural world of the planters, the slave community, and slave resistance and rebellion.
- Each section contains one major article by a prominent historian, and three primary documents drawn from plantation records, travellers' accounts, slave narratives, autobiographies, statute law, diaries, letters, and investigative reports.
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).
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