Calvin Schermerhorn

Unrequited Toil

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Introduces the essential history of slavery from the American Revolution to post-Civil War Reconstruction in twelve thematic chapters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 595g
• ISBN-13: 9781107027664
• ISBN-10: 1107027667
• Artikelnr.: 51259950

Autorenporträt

Calvin Schermerhorn is a Professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He is author of The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815¿1860 (2015), co-editor of Henry Goings's Rambles of A Runaway from Southern Slavery (2012), and author of Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Counter-revolutionaries
2. Slow death for slavery
3. Cotton empire
4. Black insurgency
5. Financial chains
6. Life in the quotidian
7. Landscape of sexual violence
8. Industrial discipline
9. Narratives
10. Geopolitics
11. Abolition war
12. No justice, no peace
Conclusion.