Contributor
Dudley, William, 1964-
Imprint:San Diego : Greenhaven Press, 2000.
Description255 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Note:The Atlantic Slave Trade / Daniel C. Littlefield. - Establishing slavery in the southern colonies / John B. Boles. - Slavery in the northern colonies / Donald R. Wright. - American slavery: the American Revolution (the demise of slavery in the north) / Peter Kolchin. - The failure of gradual emancipation in the south / Gary B. Nash. - The Missouri Compromise of 1820 / Roger L. Ransom. - John C. Calhoun and the southern defense of slavery / Nathaniel Weyl and William Marina. - The abolitionist movement provokes the south / William W. Freehling. - Social tensions within southern plantation society / Ronald Takaki. - Fugitive slaves exacerbate the sectional crisis over slavery / James Oakes. - Slavery and sectional tensions in the 1850s / John Hope Franklin and Albert A. Moss Jr. - Slaves seek freedom in the Civil War / Merton L. Dillon. - Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation / James M. McPherson. - How slaves responded to their emancipation / Leon F. Litwack. - Reconstruction: the aftermath of emancipation and civil war / David W. Blight. - War was not necessary to end American slavery / Jeffrey Rogers Hummel. - The significance of America's Civil War and abolition of slavery in world history / Robert W. Fogel. - Appendix of documents.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
