The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry

by Ned Sublette and Constance Sublette

Book Overview

The American Slave Coast offers a provocative vision of US history from earliest colonial times through emancipation that presents even the most familiar events and figures in a revealing new light.

Authors Ned and Constance Sublette tell the brutal story of how the slavery industry made the reproductive labor of the people it referred to as "breeding women" essential to the young country's expansion. Captive African Americans in the slave...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1613738935
• ISBN13: 9781613738931
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 5.6" x 8.7"