Slavery And Emancipation

Halpern (history, U. of Toronto, Canada) and Dal Lago (American history, National U. of Ireland) present a combination reader and documentary history of the development and eventual abolition of slavery in the United States. Each section contains at least three documents and one article, dealing with slavery in different eras and exploring such topics as the formation of the planter class, slavery and the Revolution, resistance and rebellion, life in the "big house" and in slave quarters, and the politics of secession. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Rick Halpern is Bissell-Heyd-Associates Chair of American Studies and a Professor of History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago’s Packinghouses (1997), and co-editor of Racializing Class, Classifying Race: Labour and Difference in Britain, the USA and Africa (2000), and The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History (2002).

Enrico Dal Lago is Lecturer in American History at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is the co-editor of The American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno: Essays in Comparative History (2002), and author of the forthcoming Southern Elites: American Planters and Southern Italian Noblemen, 1815–1865.