Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this new textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts on the su

"... updated to address a decade of new scholarship, the book includes a new preface, afterword, and revised and expanded bibliographic essay."--from publisher

Documenting multiple aspects of slavery and its development in North America, this collection provides more than one hundred excerpts from personal accounts, so

This companion volume to the four-part PBS series on the history of American slavery--narrated by Morgan Freeman and scheduled to air in February 2006--illumina

Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range o