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Table of contents:
The Slavery Reader brings together the most recent and essential writings on slavery. The focus is on Atlantic slavery - the enforced movement of millions of Africans from their homelands into the Americas, and the complex historical story of slavery in the Americas. Spanning almost five centuries - the late fifteenth until the mid nineteenth - the articles trace the range and impact of slavery on the modern western world. Key themes include: - the origins and development of American slavery - work - family, gender and community - slave culture - slave economy - resistance - race and social structure - Africans in the Atlantic world. Together with the editors' clear and authoritative commentary and a substantial introduction, this volume will become central to the study of slavery.
Contents:
PART ONE: The Atlantic Slave Trade INTRODUCTION 1 Philip D
Curtin: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND THE SLAVE TRADE 2 Patrick Manning: WHY AFRICANS? THE RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE TO 1700 3 David Eltis and David Richardson: WEST AFRICA AND THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE: NEW EVIDENCE OF LONG-RUN TRENDS 4 David Eltis: LABOUR AND COERCION IN THE ENGLISH ATLANTIC WORLD FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY PART TWO: Origins and Development of Slavery in the Americas INTRODUCTION 5 Stuart B
Schwartz: FIRST SLAVERY: FROM INDIAN TO AFRICAN 6 Michael Craton: SLAVERY AND SLAVE SOCIETY IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN 7 Winthrop D
Jordan: MODERN TENSIONS AND THE ORIGINS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY 8 Ira Berlin: TIME, SPACE, AND THE EVOLUTION OF AFRO-AMERICAN SOCIETY ON BRITISH MAINLAND NORTH AMERICA PART THREE: Slaves at Work INTRODUCTION 9 Verene A
Shepherd: TRADE AND EXCHANGE IN JAMAICA IN THE PERIOD OF SLAVERY 10 Simon Smith: SUGAR'S POOR RELATION: COFFEE PLANTING IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES, 1720-1833 11 Philip D
Morgan: WORK AND CULTURE: THE TASK SYSTEM AND THE WORLD OF LOWCOUNTRY BLACKS, 1700 TO 1880 12 Peter H
Wood: BLACK LABOR - WHITE RICE PART FOUR: Family, Gender and Community INTRODUCTION 246 13 Herbert Gutman: PERSISTENT MYTHS ABOUT THE AFRO-AMERICAN FAMILY 14 Michael Craton: CHANGING PATTERNS OF SLAVE FAMILY IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES 15 Cheryll Ann Cody: THERE WAS NO 'ABSALOM' ON THE BALL PLANTATIONS: SLAVE-NAMING PRACTICES IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA LOW COUNTRY, 1720-1865 16 Philip D
Morgan: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF KIN PART FIVE: Slave Culture INTRODUCTION 17 Edward Kamau Brathwaite: THE 'FOLK' CULTURE OF THE SLAVES 18 Sylvia R
Frey and Betty Wood: THE AMERICAS: THE SURVIVAL OF AFRICAN RELIGIONS 19 Shane White and Graham White: 'US LIKES A MIXTERY': LISTENING TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN SLAVE MUSIC 20 Ira Berlin: FROM CREOLE TO AFRICAN: ATLANTIC CREOLES AND THE ORIGINS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN SOCIETY IN MAINLAND NORTH AMERICA PART SIX: Slave Economy and Material Culture INTRODUCTION 21 Woodville K
Marshall: PROVISION GROUND AND PLANTATION LABOUR IN FOUR WINDWARD ISLANDS: COMPETITION FOR RESOURCES DURING SLAVERY 22 Roderick A
McDonald: INDEPENDENT ECONOMIC PRODUCTION BY SLAVES ON ANTEBELLUM LOUISIANA SUGAR PLANTATIONS 23 Hilary McD
Beckles: AN ECONOMIC LIFE OF THEIR OWN: SLAVES AS COMMODITY PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS IN BARBADOS 24 Sidney W
Mintz: THE ORIGINS OF THE JAMAICAN MARKET SYSTEM PART SEVEN: Slave Resistance INTRODUCTION 25 Betty Wood: SOME ASPECTS OF FEMALE RESISTANCE TO CHATTEL SLAVERY IN LOW COUNTRY GEORGIA, 1763-1815 26 Edward A
Pearson: 'A COUNTRYSIDE FULL OF FLAMES': A RECONSIDERATION OF THE STONO REBELLION AND SLAVE REBELLIOUSNESS IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SOUTH CAROLINA LOWCOUNTRY 27 Gad Heuman: RUNAWAY SLAVES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BARBADOS 28 Richard Price: MAROONS
Brief Description:
Brings together the most recent and essential writings on slavery. Spanning almost five centuries - the late fifteenth until the mid-nineteenth - the articles trace the range and impact of slavery on the modern western world.
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