The Slavery Reader, Volume 1

Gad J. Heuman, James Walvin

Psychology Press, 2003 - History - 800 pages

The Slavery Reader brings together the most recent and essential writings on slavery. The focus is on Atlantic slavery ¿ the enforced movement of millions of Africans from their homelands into the Americas, and the complex historical story of slavery in the Americas. Spanning almost five centuries ¿ the late fifteenth until the mid-nineteenth ¿ the articles trace the range and impact of slavery on the modern Western world.

Key themes include:

• the origins and development of American slavery
• work
• family, gender and community
• slave culture
• slave economy
• resistance
• race and social structure
• Africans in the Atlantic world.

Together with the editors' clear and authoritative commentary and a substantial introduction, this volume will become central to the study of slavery.

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Contents

• General Introduction i: 1
• Philip D Curtin: 11
• Patrick Manning: 30
• David Eltis and David Richardson: 42
• David Eltis: 58
• PART: 75
• Stuart B Schwartz: 83
• SLAVERY AND SLAVE SOCIETY IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN: 103
• Winthrop D Jordan: 112
• Ira Berlin: 122
• PART THREE: 155
• Verene A Shepherd: 161
• Simon Smith: 175
• Philip D Morgan: 194
• Peter H Wood: 224
• PART FOUR: 245
• Herbert Gutman: 252
• Michael Craton: 274
• Cheryll Ann Cody: 300
• Philip D Morgan: 332
• Slave Culture: 357
• Sylvia R Frey and Betty Wood: 384
• Shane White and Graham White: 405
• Ira Berlin: 427
• PART: 463
• Roderick A McDonald: 486
• Hilary McD Beckles: 507
• Sidney W Mintz: 521
• PART SEVEN: 545
• Edward A Pearson: 569
• Gad Heuman: 594
• Richard Price: 608
• Stuart B Schwartz: 626
• PART EIGHT: 635
• Winthrop D Jordan: 641
• Gad Heuman: 654
• Arnold A: 668
• David Northrup: 682
• PART NINE: 701
• Joseph C Miller: 707
• Robin Law and Kristin Mann: 739
• John Thornton: 764
• Daniel L Schafer: 778
• Index: 796

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Slavery Reader, Volume 1; Routledge Readers in History Series; The Slavery Reader, James Walvin
• Editors: Gad J. Heuman, James Walvin
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0415213045, 9780415213042
• Length: 800 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / General; Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations