Slavery
Subtitle: History and Historians
Edition: 1ST edition
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: June 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780064370011
Subjects: United States - General; To 1863; History - General History; History: American; United States; History; African Americans; Historiography; Slavery
First sentence: In the American South, as elsewhere, slavery rested upon a basic contradiction: Its guiding principle was that slaves were property, but its everyday practice demonstrated the impossibility of living up to, or down to, that denial of the slave's humanity.