Description: Intimate as well as comprehensive, the documents--personal accounts, songs, legal documents, diaries, letters, and other written sources--reveal the individual views, goals, and lives of slaves and their masters, making this engaging work one of the most respected catalogs of firsthand information about slavery in North America.
Brief description: WILLIE LEE ROSE is the author of Rehearsal for Reconstruction, A Documentary History of Slavery in North America (both Georgia), and Slavery and Freedom. The Willie Lee Rose Prize, sponsored by the Southern Association for Women Historians, was established in her honor. It is awarded annually for the best book on any topic in southern history written by a woman (or women).
Review Quotes:
A remarkably intimate picture of the psychic tensions and injuries wrought by the institution.
--Journal of Southern History