03534nam 2200505 450 991015745470332120230807221446.00-7456-9585-X(CKB)3710000000461347(EBL)2144890(MiAaPQ)EBC2144890(EXLCZ)99371000000046134720160406h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierWhat is slavery? /Brenda E. StevensonCambridge, England ;Malden, Massachusetts :Polity,2015.©20151 online resource (467 p.)What is History seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-7456-7150-0 0-7456-7151-9 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.Cover; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Figures and Tables; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: What is Slavery?; Notes; 1: Slavery across Time and Place Before the Atlantic Slave Trade; Slavery in the Ancient World; Slavery in the Middle East and Asia; Slavery in Africa; Slavery in Europe and the Ottoman Empire; Slavery in Pre-Contact America; Further Reading; Notes; 2: African Beginnings and the Atlantic Slave Trade; Trade Numbers: African Origins, American Destinations; British North American Slave Imports; Slave Trade Organization; Africans and the Atlantic Slave TradeMiddle Passage/MaafaFurther Reading; Notes; 3: African People in the Colonial World of North America; Early Spanish, French, Dutch Settlements and Slavery in North America; British North American Colonization and the Evolution of African Slavery; Slave Legislation and Economy in British North America's Middle and Northern Colonies; Slave Labor in the Northern and Middle Colonies of the British Mainland; Colonial Southern Slave Culture, Labor, and Family; Slavery in the Age of the American Revolution and the Early Republic; Further Reading; Notes4: Slavery and Anti-slavery in Antebellum AmericaSlave Population Growth and Relocation; Antebellum Slave Labor; Slave Family Life in the Antebellum South; Slave Punishment and Material Support; Antebellum Slave Resistance; Antebellum Slave Community Life; Antebellum Slave Frontiers; Abolition; Further Reading; Notes; Conclusion; Note; Index; End User License Agreement What is slavery? It seems a simple enough question. Despite the long history of the institution and its widespread use around the globe, many people still largely associate slavery, outside of the biblical references in the Old Testament, to the enslavement of Africans in America, particularly the United States. Slavery proved to be essential to the creation of the young nation's agricultural and industrial economies and profoundly shaped its political and cultural landscapes, even until today.What Is Slavery? focuses on the experience of enslaved black people in the United States from its eaWhat is History seriesSlaveryUnited StatesHistorySlaveryHistorySlaveryHistory.SlaveryHistory.306.3/620973Stevenson Brenda E.1154716MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910157454703321What is slavery2882221UNINA