Calvin Schermerhorn (Arizona State University)

Broschiertes Buch

Unrequited Toil

Beschreibung

Written as an introduction for undergraduate students, Unrequited Toil explores the history of American slavery from the American Revolution to post-Civil War Reconstruction. Personal narratives are used across twelve chronologically ordered chapters to explore themes such as politics, economics, labor, literature, rebellion, and social conditions.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Essential Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781107608580
• ISBN-10: 1107608589
• Artikelnr.: 51260318