| Description |
xii, 775 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Oxford handbooks |
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Oxford handbooks.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Introduction : slavery in the Americas / Robert L. Paquette, Mark M. Smith -- Part I: Places -- Spanish Hispaniola and Puerto Rico / Francisco Scarano -- Mexico and Central America / K. Russell Lohse -- Spanish South American mainland / Peter Blanchard -- Cuba / Matt D. Childs, 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 -- Part II: Themes, methods, and sources -- The transatlantic slave trade / Stephen Behrendt -- The origins of slavery in the Americas / John J. McCusker, Russell R. Menard -- Biology and African slavery / Kenneth F. Kiple -- Indian slavery / Alan 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 E. Wood -- Masters / Eugene D. Genovese, 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. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- America -- History.
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Historia.
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Slaveri -- historia.
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Amerika.
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Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
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America. (OCoLC)fst01239786
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| Genre/Form |
Reference works.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Reference works. (OCoLC)fst01919963
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| Added Author |
Paquette, Robert L., 1951- book editor.
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Smith, Mark M. (Mark Michael), 1968- book editor.
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| Added Title |
Handbook of slavery in the Americas |
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Slavery in the Americas |
| ISBN |
9780198758815 (paperback) |
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0198758812 (paperback) |
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