A Documentary History of Slavery in North America

  • New York: Oxford University Press, Inc, 1976
By [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] ROSE, Willie Lee (editor & commentary)
New York: Oxford University Press, Inc, 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); brown cloth-covered board, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xvi],[2],3-537,[7]pp. Small 1.5" scratch to upper front pastedown, else Fine. Dustjacket unclipped (priced $19.95) with some rubbing at flap folds, and creasing and closed tears along extremities; Very Good+.

With over one hundred sources, including letters, fugitive slave narratives, songs, legal cases, and petitions, "the collection paints a portrait of slavery as it evolved from 1620 to the eve of the Civil War...Ms. Rose does not feature celebrated writers on slavery but presents ordinary people reading unselfconsciously their own opinions and events as they saw them" (from front flap). [82310].

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