Heather Andrea Williams (Associate Associate professor of history

American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

A concise history of slavery in America, including the daily life of American slaves, the laws that sought to legitimize white supremacy, the anti-slavery movement, and the abolition of slavery

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 108mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 126g
• ISBN-13: 9780199922680
• ISBN-10: 0199922683
• Artikelnr.: 40581751

Autorenporträt

Heather Andrea Williams is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery, and Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom.

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter 1
Old Worlds Collide through the Atlantic Slave Trade * Chapter 2
Putting Slavery Into Place in the American Colonies * Chapter 3
Early Challenges to Slavery in America * Chapter 4
America Built on Slavery * Chapter 5
Making Life Bearable * Chapter 6
Domination and Resistance * Chapter 7
Taking Slavery Apart * Epilogue