1st Edition

The Slavery Reader

Edited By Gad Heuman, James Walvin Copyright 2003
    816 Pages
    by Routledge

    816 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Part 1: The Atlantic Slave Trade  Part 2: Origins and Development of Slavery in the Americas  Part 3: Slaves at Work  Part 4: Family, Gender and Community  Part 5: Slave Culture  Part 6: Slave Economy and Material Culture  Part 7: Slave Resistance  Part 8: Race and Social Structure  Part 9: Africans in the Atlantic World

    Biography

    Gad Heuman, James Walvin