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Author:   Robert L. Paquette (Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, Hamilton College, New York) ,  Mark M. Smith (Carolina Distinguished Professor of History, Carolina Distinguished Professor of History, University of South Carolina)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 4.20cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   1.306kg
ISBN:  

9780198758815

ISBN 10:   0198758812
Pages:   792
Publication Date:   28 January 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Robert L. Paquette and Mark M. Smith: Introduction: Slavery in the Americas Part I: Places 1: Francisco Scarano: Spanish Hispaniola and Puerto Rico 2: K. Russell Lohse: Mexico and Central America 3: Peter Blanchard: Spanish South American Mainland 4: Matt D. Childs and Manuel Barcia Paz: Cuba 5: Robert W. Slenes: Brazil 6: Trevor Burnard: British West Indies and Bermuda 7: Henk den Heijer: Dutch Caribbean 8: John Garrigus: French Caribbean 9: Daniel C. Littlefield: Colonial and Revolutionary United States 10: Jeff Forret: Early Republic and Antebellum United States Part II: Themes, Methods, and Sources 11: Stephen Behrendt: The Transatlantic Slave Trade 12: John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard: The Origins of Slavery in the Americas 13: Kenneth F. Kiple: Biology and African Slavery 14: Allan Gallay: Indian Slavery 15: Timothy Lockley: Race and Slavery 16: Jonathan Daniel Wells: Class and Slavery 17: Douglas Ambrose: Religion and Slavery 18: Jeffrey Robert Young: Proslavery Ideology 19: Paul Finkelman: United States Slave Law 20: Douglas R. Egerton: Slave Resistance 21: Kevin Dawson: Slave Culture 22: Peter Coclanis: The Economics of Slavery 23: Kirsten Wood: Gender and Slavery 24: Eugene D. Genovese and Douglas Ambrose: Masters 25: John Stauffer: Abolition and Antislavery 26: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara: Emancipation 27: Stewart R. King: Slavery and the Haitian Revolution 28: Michael Tadman: Internal Slave Trades 29: Richard H. Steckel: Demography and Slavery 30: Enrico Dal Lago: Comparative Slavery 31: Kathleen Hilliard: Finding Slave Voices 32: Theresa Singleton: Archaeology and Slavery Epilogue Stanley L. Engerman: Post-Emancipation Adjustments

Reviews

Review from previous edition Written by a variety of scholars ranging from some of the doyens of the subject to some promising newcomers, the individual contributions provide incisive, nuanced introductions to a wide range of topics and themes. Keith Mason, English Historical Review Will serve as an excellent resource for serious history students and instructors, who will find this an invaluable class resource. Recommended. Julie Biando Edwards, Library Journal This book is comprehensive and is required reading for anyone interested in teaching a course on slavery in the Americas.The editors and contributors are to be applauded for successfully piecing together the many different threads of a most complex and interesting field. David Ryden, History: Reviews of New Books This handbook provides a very valuable introduction to trends in the recent historiography on slavery in the Americas. The readers of the volume (as well as its editors) have been well served by the craftsmanship and erudition of those who have contributed to it. David Richardson, H-Soz-u-Kult an excellent work.Its articles are uniformly well crafted, edited and documented. Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies brings together leading scholars in the field who re-examine and present new perspectives on old and new themes, successfully reviews the main debates in broad geographic regions, considers indigenous slavery as well as African slavery, reassesses aspects of comparative and economic history regarding slavery, and presents articles that bring important reflections on new and understudied sources Fabricio Prado, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas

Review from previous edition Written by a variety of scholars ranging from some of the doyens of the subject to some promising newcomers, the individual contributions provide incisive, nuanced introductions to a wide range of topics and themes. Keith Masoon, English Historical Review Will serve as an excellent resource for serious history students and instructors, who will find this an invaluable class resource. Recommended. Julie Biando Edwards, Library Journal This book is comprehensive and is required reading for anyone interested in teaching a course on slavery in the Americas.The editors and contributors are to be applauded for successfully piecing together the many different threads of a most complex and interesting field. David Ryden, History: Reviews of New Books This handbook provides a very valuable introduction to trends in the recent historiography on slavery in the Americas. The readers of the volume (as well as its editors) have been well served by the craftsmanship and erudition of those who have contributed to it. David Richardson, H-Soz-u-Kult an excellent work.Its articles are uniformly well crafted, edited and documented. Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies

`Review from previous edition Written by a variety of scholars ranging from some of the doyens of the subject to some promising newcomers, the individual contributions provide incisive, nuanced introductions to a wide range of topics and themes.' Keith Mason, English Historical Review `Will serve as an excellent resource for serious history students and instructors, who will find this an invaluable class resource. Recommended.' Julie Biando Edwards, Library Journal `This book is comprehensive and is required reading for anyone interested in teaching a course on slavery in the Americas.The editors and contributors are to be applauded for successfully piecing together the many different threads of a most complex and interesting field.' David Ryden, History: Reviews of New Books `This handbook provides a very valuable introduction to trends in the recent historiography on slavery in the Americas. The readers of the volume (as well as its editors) have been well served by the craftsmanship and erudition of those who have contributed to it.' David Richardson, H-Soz-u-Kult `an excellent work.Its articles are uniformly well crafted, edited and documented.' Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies `brings together leading scholars in the field who re-examine and present new perspectives on old and new themes, successfully reviews the main debates in broad geographic regions, considers indigenous slavery as well as African slavery, reassesses aspects of comparative and economic history regarding slavery, and presents articles that bring important reflections on new and understudied sources' Fabricio Prado, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas

Author Information

Robert L. Paquette is Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College and co-founder of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization in Clinton, New York. He has published extensively on the history of slavery and his Sugar is Made with Blood won the Elsa Goveia Prize given by the Association of Caribbean Historians for the best book in Caribbean history. Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is author or editor of a dozen books, including Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South, winner of the Organization of American Historians' Avery O. Craven Award and South Carolina Historical Society's Book of the Year in 1997. He is the current President of The Historical Society.

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