Title:
The Oxford handbook of slavery in the Americas / edited by Robert L. Paquette and Mark M. Smith.
Author:
Paquette, Robert L., 1951-
Smith, Mark M. (Mark Michael), 1968-
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Call Number:
HT1048 .O94 2010
Abstract:
A series of penetrating, original, and authoritative essays on the history and historiography of the institution of slavery in the New World, written by a team of leading international contributors.
Electronic Access:
Oxford Scholarship Online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199227990.001.0001Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=34140
ISBN:
9780199227990
9780198758815
Series:
Oxford handbooks
Oxford handbooks.
Physical Description:
xii, 775 pages ; 26 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: Slavery in the Americas / Robert L. Paquette and Mark M. Smith -- Spanish Hispaniola and Puerto Rico / Francisco Scarano -- Mexico and Central America / K. Russell Lohse -- Spanish South American Mainland / Peter Blanchard -- Cuba / Matt D. Childs and Manuel Barcia -- Brazil / Robert W. Slenes -- British West Indies and Bermuda / Trevor Burnard -- Dutch Caribbean / Henk den Heijer -- French Caribbean / John Garrigus -- Colonial and revolutionary United States / Daniel C. Littlefield -- Early republic and Antebellum United States / Jeff Forret -- The transatlantic slave trade / Stephen Behrendt -- The origins of slavery in the Americas / John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard -- Biology and African slavery / Kenneth F. Kiple -- Indian Slavery / Allan Gallay -- Race and Slavery / Timothy Lockley -- Class and Slavery / Jonathan Daniel Wells -- Religion and slavery / Douglas Ambrose -- Proslavery ideology / Jeffrey Robert Young -- United States slave law / Paul Finkelman -- Slave resistance / Douglas R. Egerton -- Slave culture / Kevin Dawson -- The economics of slavery / Peter Coclanis -- Gender and slavery / Kirsten Wood -- Masters / Eugene D. Genovese and Douglas Ambrose -- Abolition and antislavery / John Stauffer -- Emancipation / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara -- Slavery and the Haitian Revolution / Stewart R. King -- Internal slave trades / Michael Tadman -- Demography and Slavery / Richard H. Steckel -- Comparative slavery / Enrico Dal Lago -- Finding slave voices / Kathleen Hilliard -- Archaeology and slavery / Theresa Singleton -- Epilogue: Post-Emancipation adjustments / Stanley L. Engerman.
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