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Subject(s)

• Slavery—United States—History [Browse]
• Slavery—United States—History—Sources [Browse]
• Enslaved persons—United States—Social conditions [Browse]
• Plantation life—United States—History [Browse]
• African Americans—History—To 1863 [Browse]
• United States—Social conditions—To 1865 [Browse]

Editor

• Burton, Orville Vernon [Browse]

Related name

• Gale Group [Browse]

Summary note

Illuminates daily life in slave society in America from colonial times to the end of the Civil War. Provides information on the business and regulation of slavery, the plantation way of life, work, family and community, culture and leisure, health and medicine, religion, resistance and rebellion, and slavery and freedom in the North.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Original version

Original: 2 v. (568 p.) : ill.

Contents

• Vol. 1. Preface
• List of contributors
• A chronology of slavery in North America
• Introduction
• The middle passage and Africa
• The business of slavery
• Work
• Family and community
• Vol. 2. Chronology
• Religion
• Health, medicine, and nutrition
• Regulating slavery
• Resistance and rebellion
• Reactions to slavery
• War
• Annotated bibliography
• Index.

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In

Gale virtual reference library

ISBN

• 9781414430164 (electronic book)
• 1414430167 (electronic book)
• 9781414430133 (set)
• 1414430132 (set)
• 9781414430140 (v. 1)
• 1414430140 (v. 1)
• 9781414430157 (v. 2)
• 1414430159 (v. 2)

OCLC

232333281

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