Slavery in the United States

by Louis Filler

Book Overview

Slavery in the United States clarifies the institution of slavery in its historical context. Filler avoids the all too prevalent literary attitude of either treating slavery as an unmitigated nightmare from the past, or regarding it as a way of life which warmly repaid slave and slaveholder. He does not reduce the issue to one of fact and figures, nor does he inject endless hypotheses and analogues. Rather, this finely etched volume encompasses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076580431X
• ISBN13: 9780765804310
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"