Slavery and emancipation [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Rick Halpern and Enrico Dal Lago

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910145748203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2002
• ISBN: 1-281-32300-4; 9786611323004; 0-470-70190-0; 0-470-75560-1; 0-470-75463-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (434 p.)
• Collana: Blackwell readers in American social and cultural history ; ; 11
• Altri autori (Persone): Dal LagoEnrico <1966->; HalpernRick
• Disciplina: 306.3/62/0973
• Soggetti: Plantation life - Southern States - History; Slavery - United States - History; Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States - History; Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Slavery and Emancipation; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 COLONIAL ORIGINS: RACE AND SLAVERY; Introduction; Document A: The First Blacks Arrive in Virginia (1619); Document B: Slavery Becomes a Legal Fact in Virginia (17th-Century Statutes); Document C: South Carolina Restricts the Liberty of Slaves (1740); Article: Two Infant Slave Societies in the Chesapeake and the Lowcountry; 2 FROM AFRICAN TO AFRICAN AMERICAN: SLAVE ADAPTATION TO THE NEW WORLD; Introduction; Document A: A Runaway Ad from the Virginia Gazette (1767); Document B: Olaudah Equiano Describes his Capture (1789)Document C: Venture Smith Describes his Childhood as a Domestic Slave (1798); Article: The Plantation Generations of African Americans; 3 THE FORMATION OF THE MASTER CLASS; Introduction; Document A: William Byrd II Describes the Patriarchal Ideal (1726); Document B: Landon Carter Describes the Business of Tobacco Planting (1770); Document C: ; Philip Fithian Visits Virginia's Planter Elite (1773- 1774); Article: Masters and Mistresses in Colonial Virginia; 4 SLAVERY AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION; Introduction; Document A: Lord Dunmore's Proclamation Freeing Slaves in Virginia (1775)Document B: George Corbin's Manumission of Slaves by Will (1787); Document C: Thomas Jefferson Expresses his Unease over Slavery (1794); Article: Slavery and the American Revolution; 5 THE GROWTH OF THE COTTON KINGDOM; Introduction; Document A: Joseph Baldwin on Society in Alabama and Mississippi (1835-1837); Document B: James Henry Hammond on Agriculture in Virginia (1841); Document C: Frederick Law Olmsted on the Profitability of Cotton (1861); Article: Debating the Profitability of Antebellum Southern Agriculture; 6 THE WORLD OF THE PLANTERSIntroduction; Document A: John Lyde Wilson's Rules of the Code of Honor (1838); Document B: George Fitzhugh on the Benefits of Slavery (1857); Document C: George Cary Eggleston Remembers the Aristocratic Life in Antebellum Virginia (1875); Article: The Slaveholders' Dilemma between Bondage and Progress; 7 LIFE WITHIN THE BIG HOUSE; Introduction; Document A: Adele Petigru Allston is Reminded of the Mistress' Duties by her Aunt (ca. 1830s); Document B: Rosalie Roos Describes Courtship in Charleston (1854); Document C: Mary Chesnut Describes the Effects of Patriarchy (1861)Article: Plantation Mistresses' Attitudes toward Slavery in South Carolina; 8 MASTERS AND SLAVES: PATERNALISM AND EXPLOITATI0N; Introduction; Document A: James Henry Hammond Battles Slave Illness (1841); Document B: Rules on the Rice Estate of Plowden C. Weston, South Carolina (1846); Document C: Charles Manigault Instructs his Overseer about "My Negroes" (1848); Article: Paternalism and Exploitation in the Antebellum Slave Market; 9 LIFE IN THE SLAVE QUARTERS; Introduction; Document A: Frederick Douglass Remembers his Childhood (1845)
• Sommario/riassunto: Slavery and Emancipation is a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South combining recent historical research with period documents. The most comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in America. Combines recent historical research with period documents to bring both immediacy and perspective to the origins, principles, realities, and aftermath of African-American slavery. Includes the colonial foundations of slavery, the master-slave relat