"... updated to address a decade of new scholarship, the book includes a new preface, afterword, and revised and expanded bibliographic essay."--from publisher

These essays, by some of the most prominent young historians writing about slavery, fill gaps in our understanding of such subjects as enslaved women, the Atlan

Documenting multiple aspects of slavery and its development in North America, this collection provides more than one hundred excerpts from personal accounts, so

For all the recent attention to the slaveholding of the founding fathers, we still know remarkably little about the influence of slavery on American politics. A