How Did American Slavery Begin?

Name: How Did American Slavery Begin?
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ISBN: 9780312182618

ISBN-10: 0312182619

ISBN-13: 9780312182618

Edition: 1999

Authors: Edward Countryman

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In this brief student book the author takes central unresolved questions of continuing interest to historians and presents articles by contributors to the debate to encourage students to look at the origins of slavery in America.

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 1/15/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 150
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


A Note for Students



Introduction


The Beginnings of American Slavery


Africans and Slavery in Colonial America


Historians and the Beginnings of Slavery



Some Current Questions



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Who enslaved whom? Gullah Roots, From "A Peculiar People": Slave Religion and Community-Culture among the Gullahs




How did the subject of slavery enter American law? The Ancestry of Inferiority (1619-1662), From Shades of Freedom: Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process




How did North America's absolute racial division begin? American Chiaroscuro: The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies




Did American freedom rest upon American slavery? Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox



Making Connections


Suggestions for Further Reading