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Print Price: $420.00

Format:
Hardback
800 pp.
171 mm x 246 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199227990

Publication date:
August 2010

Imprint: OUP UK


The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas

Edited by Dr. Robert L. Paquette and Dr. Mark M. Smith

Series : Oxford Handbooks in History

The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas offers penetrating, original, and authoritative essays on the history and historiography of the institution of slavery in the New World. With essays on colonial and antebellum America, Brazil, the Caribbean, the Indies, and South America, the Handbook has impressive geographic and temporal coverage. It also includes a generous range of thematic essays on comparative slavery, the economics of slavery, historical methodology in the field, slavery and the law, for instance.

While obviously indebted to the foundational works of the 1960s and 1970s, current writing on the history of slavery and forms of unfree labor in the Americas has taken decidedly original, new, often ingenious turns. A younger generation of scholars has shown a healthy respect for that tradition while posing new, often interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed questions, considering, for example, the nature and definition of slave resistance in the Americas, evolving meanings of gender and race under slavery, the complicated nature of class formation in unfree societies, the elaboration of proslavery and antislavery ideologies, the origins and subsequent elaboration of race-based slavery, and mechanisms of emancipation.

Written by an international team including some of the field's most eminent historians and the most innovative younger scholars working today, The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas seeks to explain the enduring importance of the earlier historiography, identify current trends and developments, and offer suggestive but informed commentary on future developments in the field for a global scholarly audience.

Readership : Scholars and students of the history of slavery.

Robert L. Paquette and Mark M. Smith: Introduction: Slavery in the Americas
Part I: Places
1. Francisco Scarano: Spanish Caribbean (Puerto Rico and Spanish Hispaniola)
2. K. Russell Lohse: Mexico and Central America
3. Peter Blanchard: Spanish South American Mainland
4. Matt D. Childs and Manuel Barcia Paz: Cuba
5. Robert W. Slenes: Brazil
6. Trevor Burnard: British West Indies and Bermuda
7. Henk den Heijer: Dutch Caribbean
8. John Garrigus: French Caribbean
9. Daniel C. Littlefield: United States (Colonial and Revolutionary)
10. Jeff Forret: United States (Early Republic and Antebellum)
Part II: Themes, Methods, and Sources
11. Stephen Behrendt: The Transatlantic Slave Trade
12. John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard: The Origins of Slavery in the Americas
13. Kenneth F. Kiple: Biology and African Slavery
14. Allan Gallay: Indian Slavery
15. Timothy Lockley: Race and Slavery
16. Jonathan Daniel Wells: Class and Slavery
17. Douglas Ambrose: Slavery and Religion
18. Jeffrey Robert Young: Proslavery Ideology
19. Paul Finkelman: United States Slave Law
20. Douglas R. Egerton: Slave Resistance
21. Kevin Dawson: Slave Culture
22. Peter Coclanis: The Economics of Slavery
23. Kirsten Wood: Gender and Slavery
24. Eugene D. Genovese and Douglas Ambrose: Masters
25. John Stauffer: Abolition and Antislavery
26. Christopher Schmidt-Nowara: Emancipation
27. Stewart R. King: Slavery and the Haitian Revolution
28. Michael Tadman: Internal Slave Trades
29. Richard H. Steckel: The Demography of Slavery
30. Enrico Dal Lago: Comparative Slavery
31. Kathleen Hilliard: Finding Slave Voices
32. Theresa Singleton: Archaeology and Slavery
Stanley L. Engerman: Epilogue: Post-Emancipation Adjustments

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Robert L. Paquette is Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College and co-founder of the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization in Clinton, New York. He has published extensively on the history of slavery and his Sugar is Made with Blood won the Elsa Goveia Prize given by the Association of Caribbean Historians for the best book in Caribbean history.
Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is author or editor of a dozen books, including Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South, winner of the Organization of American Historians' Avery O. Craven Award and South Carolina Historical Society's Book of the Year in 1997. He is the current President of The Historical Society.

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Special Features

  • A comprehensive guide to the history and interpretation of slavery in the Americas, with over thirty contributions from an international team of leading scholars.
  • Impressive geographic and temporal coverage, with essays on colonial and antebellum America, Brazil, the Caribbean, the Indies, and South America.
  • Includes thematic essays on comparative slavery, the economics of slavery, historical methodology in the field, slavery and the law, among others.
  • Explains the enduring importance of earlier historiography, identifies current trends and developments, and offers informed commentary on future developments in the field.