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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Williams, Heather Andrea
Titre(s) : American slavery [Texte imprimé] : a very short introduction / Heather Andrea Williams
Publication : New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (140 p.) : ill. ; 18 cm
Collection : Very short introductions ; 396
Lien à la collection : Very short introductions
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 119-126. Index
"This short introduction to American slavery begins with the Portuguese capture of
Africans in the 1400s and, drawing upon the scholarship of numerous historians as
well as the analysis of primary documents, explores the development of slavery in
the American colonies and later, the United States of America. It analyzes early legislation
in Virginia that differentiated Indians and Africans from Europeans and began the
process of stratifying society based on racial categories. Unlike some recent scholarship,
it is attentive to the actual labor that enslaved people performed, reminding us that
more than anything else, slavery was a system of forced labor that produced wealth
for a new nation. And, it considers the tensions that arose between enslaved and enslavers
as they interacted with one another, exerting control and undermining efforts at domination.
Throughout, it explores slavery within the context of moral contradiction that included
the development of an ideology that valorized freedom alongside a practice and justification
of slavery that deemed inferior and denied freedom to a large swath of the population.
The book explores conflicts between abolitionists who worked to eliminate slavery
and pro-slavery advocates who worked doggedly to sustain the power and wealth they
derived from the institution. It ends with the abolition of slavery in America following
the Civil War"
Sujet(s) : Esclavage -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Esclaves -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
306.362 097309 (23e éd.) = Esclavage - États-Unis - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199922680. - ISBN 0199922683 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47353451q
Notice n° :
FRBNF47353451
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : The Atlantic slave trade ; Putting slavery into place ; The work of slavery ;
Struggles for control ; Surviving slavery ; Taking slavery apart ; Epilogue.
