Gale library of daily life  slavery in America /  [electronic resource] : 
Orville Vernon Burton, editor. 
 - Detroit, Mich. :  Gale,  c2008. 
 - 1 online resource (2 v. (568 p.)) :  ill. 
 - Gale virtual reference library .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781414430164 (electronic book) 1414430167 (electronic book) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Slavery--History.--United States<br/>Slavery--History--United States--Sources.<br/>Slaves--Social conditions.--United States<br/>Plantation life--History.--United States<br/>African Americans--History--To 1863.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Social conditions--To 1865.