American Slavery: 1619-1877

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003 - 328 pages
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The single best short survey in America, now updated.
Includes a New Preface and Afterward

In terms of accessibility and comprehensive coverage, Kolchin's American Slavery is a singularly important achievement. Now updated to address a decade of new scholarship, the book includes a new preface, afterword, and revised and expanded bibliographic essay. It remains the best book to introduce a subject of profound and lasting importance, one that lies at the center of American history.

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Review: American Slavery: 1619-1877

Avis d'utilisateur  - Richard - Goodreads

I thought this was a compelling historical depiction of the horrors of slavery, of the atrocities that man has committed against his fellow man. Consulter l'avis complet

Review: American Slavery: 1619-1877

Avis d'utilisateur  - Scott Ford - Goodreads

Kolchin presents the institution of Amreican slavery in a day-to-day perpsective, breaking apart stereotypes of huge plantations with hundreds of slaves, explaining slavery from the local, rural, common street level view. Consulter l'avis complet

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À propos de l'auteur (2003)

Peter Kolchin, the Henry Clay Reed Professor of History at the University of Delaware, is the author of numerous books, most recently A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth Century South in Comparative Perspective (2003).

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