Slavery in American Society

by Goodheart, Lawrence B.; Brown, Richard D.; Rabe, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780669244465
• ISBN10: 0669244465
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-01-01
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

This anthology reflects the sweeping changes of recent years in historians' views of slavery, featuring essays from the growing fields of social history, women's history, and comparative history.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	xv
Chronology	xxiii
I. What Is Slavery?
Slavery and Social Death	3	(10)
Orlando Patterson
On Paternalism	13	(8)
Eugene D. Genovese
II. The Emergence of Slavery
Slavery in the New World	21	(13)
Robert Fogel
Time, Space, and the Evolution of African-American Society	34	(35)
Ira Berlin
Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox	69	(14)
Edmund S. Morgan
The Uncertain Antislavery Commitment of Thomas Jefferson	83	(16)
David Brion Davis
III. Slave Life and Culture
Slave Spirituals	99	(17)
Lawrence Levine
Images of Slavery: A Photographic Essay	116	(7)
Conjure	123	(11)
Albert J. Raboteau
Nutrition and Nutriments	134	(19)
Kenneth F. Kiple
Virginia H. King
IV. Family and Gender
The Life Cycle of Slaves	153	(8)
Allan Kulikoff
Family Life	161	(5)
Herbert G. Gutman
Slave Women	166	(31)
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
V. United States Slavery in Comparative Perspective
The Origins of Racial Slavery in Virginia and South Africa	197	(10)
George M. Fredrickson
American Slavery and Russian Serfdom	207	(10)
Peter Kolchin
Slavery and Emancipation in Comparative Perspective	217	(20)
Stanley L. Engerman
VI. Slavery and Society
Slave Management	237	(10)
Drew G. Faust
Slave Revolts	247	(12)
Eugene D. Genovese
Slavery and the Civil War	259	(18)
Eric Foner
Suggestions for Further Reading	277