{"product_id":"9780631217343","title":"Slavery and Emancipation","description":"\u003ch3\u003eWiley Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eSlavery and Emancipation\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eRick Halpern | Enrico Dal Lago\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory \/ United States \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlavery and Emancipation\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South combining recent historical research with period documents.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe most comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in America.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCombines recent historical research with period documents to bring both immediacy and perspective to the origins, principles, realities, and aftermath of African-American slavery.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes the colonial foundations of slavery, the master-slave relationship, the cultural world of the planters, the slave community, and slave resistance and rebellion.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEach section contains one major article by a prominent historian, and three primary documents drawn from plantation records, travellers' accounts, slave narratives, autobiographies, statute law, diaries, letters, and investigative reports.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cb\u003eRick Halpern\u003c\/b\u003e is Bissell-Heyd-Associates Chair of American Studies and a Professor of History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDown on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago’s Packinghouses\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eRacializing Class, Classifying Race: Labour and Difference in Britain, the USA and Africa\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), and \u003ci\u003eThe American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History\u003c\/i\u003e (2002). \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnrico Dal Lago\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in American History at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), and author of the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eSouthern Elites: American Planters and Southern Italian Noblemen, 1815–1865\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e15 November 2002\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley-Blackwell\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9780631217343\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e436\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26.24\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44315235778700,"sku":"9780631217343","price":153.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780631217343.jpg?v=1780101463","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780631217343","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}