| Physical description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 498 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-book |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The heart: 1937 -- Feet: 1783-1810 -- Heads: 1791-1815 -- Right hand: 1815-1819 -- Left hand: 1805-1861 -- Tongues: 1819-1824 -- Breath: 1824-1835 -- Seed: 1829-1837 -- Blood: 1836-1844 -- Backs: 1839-1850 -- Arms: 1850-1861 -- The corpse: 1861-1937. |
| Summary |
"Americans tend to assume that modern historiography has produced a full and complete understanding of slavery in the United States, as a shameful pre-modern institution, existing in isolation from America's later success. But while we have long since rejected the idealistic depiction of happy slaves and paternalistic masters, we have not yet begun to grapple with the full extent of slavery's horrors, or its link to the expansion of the country, the political battles that caused the Civil War, or the growth of our modern capitalist economy."--Provided by publisher. |
| Language notes |
English. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Social conditions -- History.
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Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History.
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Slavery -- United States -- History.
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African Americans -- Social conditions.
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History |
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Advance copies (Printing) -- 21st century. CU-BANC |
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Advance copies (Publishing) CU-BANC |
| Variant Title |
Slavery and the making of American capitalism |
| ISBN |
9780465044702 (electronic bk.) |
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0465044700 (electronic bk.) |
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9780465097685 (electronic bk.) |
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0465097685 (electronic bk.) |
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9780465002962 (hardcover) |
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046500296X (hardcover) |
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