In this brief student book, Edward Countryman takes central unresolved questions of continuing interest to historians, presents seminal articles by the major contributors to the debate and encourages students to look at the origins of slavery in America with the help of leading scholarship.
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Basingstoke
Großbritannien
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 151 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-312-18261-8 (9780312182618)
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Foreword - A Note for Students - PART ONE: THE BEGINNINGS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY - Slavery in the British Colonies - Historians and the Beginnings of Slavery - PART TWO: SOME CURRENT QUESTIONS - Was the Early European Atlantic also an African Atlantic? - From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society in Mainland North America; I.Berlin - Who Enslaved Whom? - Gullah Roots; M.Washington - How Did the Subject of Slavery Enter American Law? - The Ancestry of Inferiority (1619-1662); A.L.Higginbotham Jnr. - How did North America's Absolute Racial Division Begin? - American Chiaroscuro: The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies; W.D.Jordan - Did American Freedom Rest Upon American Slavery? - Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox; E.S.Morgan - Making Connections - Bibliographic Note
