Laboring over the past half decade, they have brought together nearly 300 individual articles covering the period from the first English settlement in America to Reconstruction after the Civil War. Each article includes a selected bibliography to lead readers to further scholarship on a given topic. The topics selected were chosen for their importance both to specialists and to general readers, and the articles were produced by contributors recognized for their special expertise in these assigned topics.
Emphasis is placed on the social, institutional, intellectual, and political aspects of slavery.
There are entries covering broad subjects as well as selected biographies of well-known persons involved in slavery. . . . Inc. All rights reserved. This site is best viewed using a 56K modem, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.5, Netscape Communicator 4.6, Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or better, and monitor resolution set for 800x600. To view PDFs you need Acrobat Reader. Near Christiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands.