| Description |
255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Turning points in world history |
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Turning points (Greenhaven Press)
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| Contents |
Foreword -- Introduction -- Rise and fall of American slavery : a brief overview -- Origins of American slavery -- Atlantic slave trade / Daniel C. Littlefield ; Establishing slavery in the southern colonies / John B. Boles ; Slavery in the northern colonies / Donald R. Wright -- Slavery and the American Revolution -- American slavery : the American Revolution (the demise of slavery in the North) / Peter Kolchin ; Failure of gradual emancipation in the South / Gary B. Nash -- House divided : American slavery in the Antebellum era -- Missouri Compromise of 1820 / Roger L. Ransom ; John C. Calhoun and the Southern defense of slavery / Nathaniel Weyl & William Marina ; Abolitionist movement provokes the South / William W. Freehling ; Social tensions within Southern plantation society / Ronald Takaki ; Fugitive slaves exacerbate the sectional crisis over slavery / James Oakes ; Slavery and sectional tensions in the 1850s / John Hope Franklin & Albert A. Moss Jr. -- Civil War and the end of American slavery -- Slaves seek freedom in the Civil War / Merton L. Dillon ; Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation / James M. McPherson ; How slaves responded to their emancipation / Leon F. Litwack ; Reconstruction : the aftermath of emancipation and Civil War / David W. Blight -- Was the Civil War necessary to end slavery? -- War was not necessary to end American slavery / Jeffrey Rogers Hummel ; Significance of America's Civil War and abolition of slavery in world history / Robert W. Fogel. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247) and index. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Dudley, William, 1964-
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| ISBN |
0737702133 alkaline paper |
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0737702125 paperback alkaline paper |
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