Slavery
Subtitle: History and Historians
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: October 1, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780064301824
Subjects: American history; Black studies; Slavery & emancipation; Slavery; History; History - U.S.; North America; To 1863; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; United States - General; History / United States / General; Social Science-Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Historiography; African Americans; United States
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.