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Gale library of daily life : slavery in America / Orville Vernon Burton, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Gale eBooksPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2008Description: 1 online resource (2 volumes (568 pages)) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781414430164
  • 1414430167
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.71 23
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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