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<p><P><b>The single best short survey in America, now updated.</b><p><b>Includes a New Preface and Afterward</b><P>In terms of accessibility and comprehensive coverage, Kolchin's American Slavery is a singularly important achievement. Now updated to address a decade of new scholarship, the book includes a new preface, afterword, and revised and expanded bibliographic essay. It remains the best book to introduce a subject of profound and lasting importance, one that lies at the center of American history.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>In this readable synthesis of scholarship, University of Delaware history professor Kolchin takes a judicious view of historians' controversies surrounding this topic. Kolchin ( Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom ) offers a good narrative account of American slavery, but the book is most useful for his historiographical navigation. While some scholars have argued that slaves quickly abandoned African ways, and others maintain that slave culture was strongly African, Kolchin disputes this dichotomy, describing instead the development of a unique African American culture. Likewise, Kolchin sees the validity of studies that have focused

Who reads American Slavery: 1619-1877 (10th Anniversary Edition)?

Author

Peter Kolchin

Publisher

Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809016303

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, Sociology, History

Rating

3.94 / 5 (467 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13