Format:
Book
Author:
McNeese, Tim.
Title:
The rise and fall of American slavery : freedom denied, freedom gained / Tim McNeese ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher, Date:
Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2004.
Description:
128 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Summary:
Surveys the origins of American slavery, the development of a slave system and resistance to slavery, the effects of the Revolution and the cotton trade, organized Abolitionism, and the coming of emancipation.
Series:
Slavery in American history
Slavery in American history.
Subjects:
Slavery -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- History -- To 1863 -- Juvenile literature.
Slavery -- United States -- History.
Antislavery movements.
African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States -- History -- 1783-1865.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-125) and index.
Surveys the origins of American slavery, the development of a slave system and resistance to slavery, the effects of the Revolution and the cotton trade, organized Abolitionism, and the coming of emancipation.
Contents:
The story of Josiah Henson -- The slave trade --Slavery in the colonies -- Slavery and revolution -- King Cotton -- Abolition and emancipation.
LCCN:
2003013459
ISBN:
0766021564
System Availability:
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Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
369674
Call Number:
973.0496 M169r
Course Reserves:
0
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