Calvin Schermerhorn (Arizona State University)

Unrequited Toil

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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

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.