A Documentary History of Slavery in North America

by Willie Lee Rose

Book Overview

Documenting multiple aspects of slavery and its development in North America, this collection provides more than one hundred excerpts from personal accounts, songs, legal documents, diaries, letters, and other written sources. The book assembles a remarkable portrayal of the day-to-day connections between, and among, slaves and their owners across more than two centuries of subjugation and resistance, despair and hope. Beginning with a chronicle of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195019784
• ISBN13: 9780195019780
• Release Date: February 1976
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 554 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.