The Slavery Reader (Routledge Readers in History)

by Gad Heuman (Editor), Gad Heuman (Editor), James Walvin (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $57.94

  The Slavery Reader brings together the most recent and essential writings on slavery. The focus is on Atlantic slavery - the enforced movement of millions of Africans from their homelands into the Americas, and the complex historical story of slavery in the Americas. Spanning almost five centuries - the late fifteenth until the mid-nineteenth - the articles trace the range and impact of slavery on the modern Western world.

  Key themes include:

  • the origins and development of American slavery
  • work
  • family, gender and community
  • slave culture
  • slave economy
  • resistance
  • race and social structure
  • Africans in the Atlantic world.

  Together with the editors' clear and authoritative commentary and a substantial introduction, this volume will become central to the study of slavery.

• New

  Hardcover
  2003

  $161.44

  Brings together the most recent and essential writings on slavery. Spanning almost five centuries - the late fifteenth until the mid-nineteenth - the articles trace the range and impact of slavery on the modern western world.