American Negro slavery, a modern reader. / Edited by Allen Weinstein and Frank Otto Gatell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinstein, Allen, editor.

Contributor:

Gatell, Frank Otto, editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, viii, 366 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, Oxford University Press, 1968.

Contents:

Part I: The Origins. Modern Tensions and the Origins of American Slavery / Winthrop D. Jordan; The Evolution of Slavery in British America and Latin America: A Comparison / David Brion Davis

Part II: The Slave. Southern Negro Slavery: A Benign View / Ulrich B. Phillips; Southern Negro Slavery: "To Make Them Stand in Fear: / Kenneth M. Stampp; The Negro Slave in New York / Edgar J. McManus; Slavery in Microcosm: Burke County, North Carolina / Edward W. Phifer; Slavery in Southern Cities / Richard C. Wade; The Slave Economies of Cuba and Virginia: A Comparison / Herbert S. Klein

Part III: The Master. Slavery and the Revolutionary Generation / Robert McColley; Slavery and the Nullification Crisis / William W. Freehling; The Militant South / John Hope Franklin; The Travail of Slavery / Charles Grier Sellers, Jr.; Patterns of Slavery in the Americas / David Brion Davis

Part IV: The System. The Historian and Southern Negro Slavery / Kenneth M. Stampp; Slavery and Negro Personality / Stanley M. Elkins; The Profitability of Slavery / Harold D. Woodman; The Slave South: An Interpretation / Eugene D. Genovese; Race Relations in Old South Industries / Robert Starobin; Interpretations of Slavery: The Slave Status in the Americas / Arnold A. Sio

Part V: Assessments. On Stanley M. Elkins's Slavery, a Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life / Eugene D. Genovese; On Eugene D. Genovese's The Political Economy of Slavery / Stanley M. Elkins; On David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture / M. I. Finley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy is 1968 reprint.

Banks Collection copy has highlighted portions of text.

OCLC:

440510