num_pages: 304
description: The single best short survey in America, now updated.Includes a New Preface and AfterwardIn terms of accessibility and comprehensive coverage, Kolchin's American Slavery is a singularly important achievement. Now updated to address a decade of new scholarship, the book includes a new preface, afterword, and revised and expanded bibliographic essay. It remains the best book to introduce a subject of profound and lasting importance, one that lies at the center of American history.
language: English
title: American Slavery, 1619-1877
titlecomplete: American Slavery, 1619-1877
genres: The United States Of America, Textbooks, History, Race, Nonfiction, American History, African American, American Civil War, School, Civil War
ratings_count: 749
publisher: Hill & Wang/Farrar, Straus & Giroux (NY)