Slavery
By: Thomas Streissguth, book editor
Series: History firsthand
Publisher: Greenhaven Press; Greenhaven
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780737706338; 9780737706321
Subjects: Quelle; Slaveholders; Sklavenhandel; Slavery; Sklaverei; Sources; Geschichte; Slaves; Social conditions; Biography; History
Description: Seventeen primary documents reflect various aspects of slavery, especially concerning the slave trade, foreign perspectives on America's peculiar institution, the slave's experience, slave resistance, and abolitionism. Offering the perspectives of Southern gentlemen, foreign visitors (including soldiers and revolutionaries), abolitionists, and especially the slaves themselves, particular chapters discuss slave auctions, plantation life, the status of women, punishment, religion, rebellion, escape, the economic role of slavery, the comparison to wage-slavery in the north, and abolitionist strategies. A chronology and an introductory essay are provided.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: THE SLAVE TRADE: A voyage to West Africa / Joseph Hawkins; title: The Middle Passage / Olaudah Equiano; title: A day at the slave auctions / William Chambers; title: FOREIGN PERSPECTIVES: A Redcoat's view of plantation life / Thomas Anburey; title: An inhuman institution / Hector St. John de Crevecoeur; title: Revolutionary opinions / J.J. Brissot de Warville; title: A LIFE IN BONDAGE: The uncertainties of courtship and marriage / Henry Bibb; title: The cruel fate of women / Harriet Jacobs; title: The sale of a slave / William G. Eliot; title: Punishment / Charles Ball; title: DEFIANCE, REBELLION, AND ESCAPE: Finding strength in religion / James L. Smith; title: Nat Turner's Confession / Nat Turner; title: An escape betrayed / Frederick Douglass; title: THE ABOLITION DEBATE: Slavery brings economic prosperity / David Christy; title: Northern slavery / George Fitzhugh; title: Proclaiming the abolitionist creed / William Lloyd Garrison; title: Destroying slavery with the ballot / Hinton Helpter.