| Description |
1 online resource (2 volumes (568 pages)) : illustrations |
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Gale eBooks
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Slavery -- United States -- History.
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Slavery -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Slaves -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Plantation life -- United States -- History.
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African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
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United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
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| Added Author |
Burton, Orville Vernon, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gale library of daily life : slavery in America. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2008 9781414430133 |
| ISBN |
9781414430164 (electronic book) |
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1414430167 (electronic book) |
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9781414430133 (set) |
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1414430132 (set) |
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9781414430140 (v. 1) |
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1414430140 (v. 1) |
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9781414430157 (v. 2) |
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1414430159 (v. 2) |
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