What is slavery? / / Brenda E. Stevenson

• Autore: Stevenson Brenda E.
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Polity, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (467 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.3/620973
• Soggetto topico: Slavery - United States - History; Slavery - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Trade ; Middle 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; Notes ; 4: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 ea
• Titolo autorizzato: What is slavery
• ISBN: 0-7456-9585-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910157454703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: What is History series