Slavery and emancipation / edited by Rick Halpern and Enrico Dal Lago.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Halpern, Rick.

Dal Lago, Enrico, 1966-

Series:

Blackwell readers in American social and cultural history ; 11.

Blackwell readers in American social and cultural history ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation.

History.

Plantation life.

United States.

Slavery--United States--History--Sources.

Southern States.

Plantation life--Southern States--History.

Plantation life--Southern States--History--Sources.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.

Enslaved persons.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States--History--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xv, 416 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2002.

Summary:

Slavery and Emancipation is the most up-to-date and comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South. It combines recent historical research with period documents to bring both immediacy and perspective to the origins, principles, realities, and aftermath of African-American slavery. Central topics include the colonial foundations of slavery, the master-slave relationship, the cultural world of the planters, the slave community, and slave resistance and rebellion.Each topical section contains one major article by a prominent historian, and three primary documents. The documents have been drawn from a wide variety of sources, including plantation records, travellers' accounts, slave narratives, autobiographies, statute law, diaries, letters, and investigative reports. This material has been carefully chosen to benefit students and readers of the history of African-American slavery and emancipation.

Contents:

1 Colonial Origins: Race and Slavery 10

Document A The First Blacks Arrive in Virginia (1619) 13

Document B Slavery Becomes a Legal Fact in Virginia (17th-Century Statutes) 14

Document C South Carolina Restricts the Liberty of Slaves (1740) 16

Article: Two Infant Slave Societies in the Chesapeake and the Lowcountry / Philip D. Morgan 18

2 From African to African American: Slave Adaptation to the New World 35

Document A A Runaway Ad from the Virginia Gazette (1767) 37

Document B Olaudah Equiano Describes his Capture (1789) 38

Document C Venture Smith Describes his Childhood as a Domestic Slave (1798) 41

Article: The Plantation Generations of African Americans / Ira Berlin 42

3 The Formation of the Master Class 55

Document A William Byrd II Describes the Patriarchal Ideal (1726) 57

Document B Landon Carter Describes the Business of Tobacco Planting (1770) 58

Document C Philip Fithian Visits Virginia's Planter Elite (1773-1774) 61

Article: Masters and Mistresses in Colonial Virginia / Kathleen M. Brown 63

4 Slavery and the American Revolution 87

Document A Lord Dunmore's Proclamation Freeing Slaves in Virginia (1775) 90

Document B George Corbin's Manumission of Slaves by Will (1787) 91

Document C Thomas Jefferson Expresses his Unease over Slavery (1794) 92

Article: Slavery and the American Revolution / Peter Kolchin 96

5 The Growth of the Cotton Kingdom 123

Document A Joseph Baldwin on Society in Alabama and Mississippi (1835-1837) 126

Document B James Henry Hammond on Agriculture in Virginia (1841) 129

Document C Frederick Law Olmsted on the Profitability of Cotton (1861) 131

Article: Debating the Profitability of Antebellum Southern Agriculture / Mark M. Smith 133

6 The World of the Planters 146

Document A John Lyde Wilson's Rules of the Code of Honor (1838) 149

Document B George Fitzhugh on the Benefits of Slavery (1857) 151

Document C George Cary Eggleston Remembers the Aristocratic Life in Antebellum Virginia (1875) 153

Article: The Slaveholders' Dilemma between Bondage and Progress / Eugene D. Genovese 155

7 Life Within the Big House 177

Document A Adele Petigru Allston is Reminded of the Mistress' Duties by her Aunt (ca. 1830s) 180

Document B Rosalie Roos Describes Courtship in Charleston (1854) 181

Document C Mary Chesnut Describes the Effects of Patriarchy (1861) 182

Article: Plantation Mistresses' Attitudes toward Slavery in South Carolina / Marli F. Weiner 185

8 Masters and Slaves: Paternalism and Exploitation 206

Document A James Henry Hammond Battles Slave Illness (1841) 208

Document B Rules on the Rice Estate of Plowden C. Weston, South Carolina (1846) 210

Document C Charles Manigault Instructs his Overseer about "My Negroes" (1848) 212

Article: Paternalism and Exploitation in the Antebellum Slave Market / Walter Johnson 214

9 Life in the Slave Quarters 233

Document A Frederick Douglass Remembers his Childhood (1845) 236

Document B Tempie Herndon Remembers her Wedding (ca. 1850) 238

Document C William Cullen Bryant Recollects a Corn-Shucking Ceremony (1850) 240

Article: Slave Marriage and Family Relations in Antebellum Virginia / Brenda E. Stevenson 242

10 Slave Resistance and Slave Rebellion 265

Document A The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) 268

Document B Frederick Douglass Remembers Resisting Mr. Covey (1845) 270

Document C Frederick Law Olmsted on Runaway Slaves in Virginia (1861) 272

Article: The Impact of Runaway Slaves on the Slave System / John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger 274

11 The Abolitionist Impulse 294

Document A William Lloyd Garrison, "I Will Be Heard" (1831) 297

Document B The American Anti-Slavery Society's Declaration of Sentiments (1833) 299

Document C Frederick Douglass Discusses the Fourth of July (1852) 302

Article: Abolitionists and the Origins of Racial Equality / Paul Goodman 304

12 The Politics of Slavery 316

Document A John C. Calhoun on States' Rights and Nullification (1828) 319

Document B Free-Soil Democrat Walt Whitman's View on Slavery and the Mexican War (1847) 322

Document C Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided" Speech (1858) 324

Article: Slavery and Territorial Expansion / Don E. Fehrenbacher 326

13 Secession and Civil War 345

Document A South Carolina's Declaration of the Immediate Causes of Secession (1860) 348

Document B Mary Chesnut Recalls the Beginning of the Civil War (1861) 350

Document C Sarah Morgan Defends Slavery against Lincoln's Plan for Emancipation (1862) 352

Article: Confederate Women in the Crisis of the Slaveholding South / Drew Gilpin Faust 354

14 Emancipation and the Destruction of Slavery 377

Document A Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (1863) 380

Document B Frederick Douglass, "Men of Color, To Arms" (1863) 382

Document C Statement of a "Colored Man" (September 1863) 385

Article: The Destruction of Slavery in the Confederate Territories / Ira Berlin et al. 387.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0631217347

0631217355

OCLC:

49558976