American Slavery, American Freedom Av Edmund S. Morgan

Examines how the demands of western settlers, the potential of western disunion, and local, popular politics determined the fate of slavery and freedom in the West between 1790 and 1820. This book demonstrates that local political contests and geopolitical...

Armstrong charts the legacy of slavery in the United States by tracing the representations of global slavery's victims and perpetrators in popular culture after the Civil War. In doing so, she reveals the rhetorical manoeuvres that were used to justify...

Reproduction of the original: The Right of American Slavery by T.W Hoit

Beginning with the Colonial period, progressing through the Revolution and the Antebellum period, the book chronologically documents the historical evolution of slavery in the USA