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2. Bibliography of slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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   This bibliography of slavery in the United States is a guide to books documenting the history of slavery in the U.S., from its colonial origins in the 17th century through the adoption of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which officially abolished the practice in 1865. In addition, links are provided to related bibliographies and ...

3. African-American literature - Wikipedia

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   African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745–1797) was an African man who wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, an autobiography published in 1789 that became one of the first influential works about the transatlantic slave trade and the experiences of enslaved Africans.

4. Inhuman Bondage - Wikipedia

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   It was praised widely as a full and comprehensive rendering of the subject and won the 2007 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. [1] Davis, a leading authority on slavery in the western world, has said the impetus for the book began as a series of lectures for a course he taught on slavery at Yale in 1994. [2]

5. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of ...

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   Walker's review in Monthly Review offered a labor-history perspective on the book, [7] while Paul Harvey in The Christian Century found the book to be "one of the richest and most provocative accounts of American slavery I have ever read." [8] In The American Interest Paul DeRosa described the book as "a prodigious work that stacks up a ...

6. History of slavery - Wikipedia

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   The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places. [1]

7. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass - Wikipedia

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   Frederick Douglass, 1879. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass's third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. Because of the emancipation of American slaves during and following the American Civil War, Douglass gave more details about his life as a slave and his escape from slavery in this volume than he could in his two previous autobiographies (which would ...

8. The Slave Community - Wikipedia

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   Reviewing the revised edition in the Journal of Southern History, Gary B. Mills suggests, "All controversy and revision aside, The Slave Community remains a significant book, and the author's position that the bulk of both slaves and slaveowners lay between the stereotyped extremes proves durable. Their exact location on a scale of one to ten ...

9. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

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   By 1804, before the creation of new states from the federal western territories, the number of slave and free states was 8 each. By the time of Missouri Compromise of 1820, the dividing line between the slave and free states was called the Mason-Dixon line (between Maryland and Pennsylvania), with its westward extension being the Ohio River.