Gale library of daily life [electronic resource] : slavery in America / Orville Vernon Burton, editor.

Contributor(s): Series: Gale virtual reference libraryPublication details: Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2008.Description: 1 online resource (2 v. (568 p.)) : illISBN:
  • 9781414430164 (electronic book)
  • 1414430167 (electronic book)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gale library of daily life : slavery in America.DDC classification:
  • 23
LOC classification:
  • E441
Online resources:
Contents:
Vol. 1. Preface -- List of contributors -- A chronology of slavery in North America -- Introduction -- The middle passage and Africa -- The business of slavery -- Work -- Family and community -- Vol. 2. Chronology -- Religion -- Health, medicine, and nutrition -- Regulating slavery -- Resistance and rebellion -- Reactions to slavery -- War -- Annotated bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Illuminates daily life in slave society in America from colonial times to the end of the Civil War. Provides information on the business and regulation of slavery, the plantation way of life, work, family and community, culture and leisure, health and medicine, religion, resistance and rebellion, and slavery and freedom in the North.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Vol. 1. Preface -- List of contributors -- A chronology of slavery in North America -- Introduction -- The middle passage and Africa -- The business of slavery -- Work -- Family and community -- Vol. 2. Chronology -- Religion -- Health, medicine, and nutrition -- Regulating slavery -- Resistance and rebellion -- Reactions to slavery -- War -- Annotated bibliography -- Index.

Illuminates daily life in slave society in America from colonial times to the end of the Civil War. Provides information on the business and regulation of slavery, the plantation way of life, work, family and community, culture and leisure, health and medicine, religion, resistance and rebellion, and slavery and freedom in the North.

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