How Did American Slavery Begin?: Readings (Historians at Work) - Hardcover

The volumes in this series each bring together four or five unabridged essays that speak to specific questions related to an historical issue. Here, after introductory material by the editor on the beginnings of American slavery, five (introduced) essays address five questions: Was the early European Atlantic also an African Atlantic? Who enslaved whom? How did the subject of slavery enter American law? How did North America's absolute racial division begin? and Did American freedom rest upon American slavery? An index would have enhanced this well-conceived, discussion-stimulating volume. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.