Pub Date: June 2, 2011
Dewey: 975.51803
LCCN: 2010046799
Lexile Code: 0000
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.70" H x 8.90" L x 5.90" W ( 0.90 lbs) 296 pages
BISAC Categories:
History | United States | State and Local South ALARFLGAKYLAMSNCSCTNVAWV | 19th Century | Social Science | Enslavement | Cultural and Ethnic Studies | African American and Black Studies | Social History
Series: Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Libra
Description: Slaves focused their energy and attention, however, not on making money, as slaveholders increasingly did, but on keeping their kin out of the human coffles of the slave trade.
Brief description: Calvin Schermerhorn is an assistant professor of history at Arizona State University.
Review Quotes: This elegantly written and engaging monograph is required reading for students of nineteenth-century North Carolina history.
--Sean Condon, North Carolina Historical Review