Slavery in America /
"Slavery in America tells the story of slavery in North America, including the slave trade on the west coast of Africa and the transatlantic journey to North America, slave auctions, plantation life, escape attempts and insurrections, the Civil War and eventual emancipation, and the turbulent p...
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Facts On File,
[2007], ©2007
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| Series: | American experience (Facts on File, Inc.)
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Table of Contents:
- The West Coast of Africa : 1441-1866
- The Middle Passage : 1500-1866
- Americans in the slave trade : 1526-1865
- Slave life : 1619-1865
- Slave work : 1619-1865
- Runaways : 1619-1865
- Canada, other refuges, and the colonization/emigration movement : 1501-1877
- Rebels : 1526-1865
- Indians as slaves, as friends and enemies of Black slaves, and as slaveholders : 1529-1877
- The argument over slavery : 1637-1877
- Black soldiers in America's wars : 1635-1877
- The end of slavery : 1861-1877
- Reconstruction : 1865-1877
- Appendix A : documents
- Appendix B : biographies of major personalities
- Appendix C : maps
- Appendix D : graphs and tables
- Ch. 1 The West Coast of Africa : 1441-1866
- Ch. 2. The middle passage : 1500-1866
- Ch. 3. Americans in the slave trade : 1526-1865
- Ch. 4. Slave life : 1619-1865
- Ch. 5. Slave work : 1619-1865
- Ch. 6. Runaways : 1619-1865
- Ch. 7. Canada, other refuges, and the colonization/emigration movement : 1501-1877
- Ch. 8. Rebels : 1526-1865
- Ch. 9. Indians as slaves, as friends and enemies of black slaves, and as slaveholders : 1529-1877
- Ch. 10. The argument over slavery : 1637-1877
- Ch. 11. Black soldiers in America's Wars : 1635-1877
- Ch. 12. The end of slavery : 1861-1877
- Ch. 13. Reconstruction : 1865-1877.
- Author's preface for the Revised Edition
- Acknowledgments
- ch. 1. The West Coast of Africa : 1441-1866
- ch. 2. The Middle Passage : 1500-1866
- ch. 3 Americans in the slave trade : 1526-1865
- ch. 4. Slave life : 1619-1865
- ch. 5. Slave work : 1619-1865
- ch. 6. Runaways : 1619-1865
- ch. 7. Canada, other refuges, and the colonization/emigration movement : 1501-1877
- ch. 8. Rebels : 1526-1865
- ch. 9. Indians as slaves, as friends and enemies of Black slaves, and as slaveholders : 1529-1877
- ch. 10. The argument over slavery : 1637-1877
- ch. 11. Black soldiers in America's wars : 1635-1877
- ch. 12. The end of slavery : 1861-1877
- ch. 13. Reconstruction : 1865-1877
- Appendix A : documents
- Appendix B : biographies of major personalities
- Appendix C : maps
- Appendix D : graphs and tables
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.