by Steven Mintz (Editor)
A succinct, up-to-date overview of the history of slavery that places American slavery in comparative perspective.
- Provides students with more than 70 primary documents on the history of slavery in America
- Includes extensive excerpts from slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, and letters by African Americans that document the experience of bondage
- Comprehensive headnotes introduce each selection
- A Visual History chapter provides images to supplement the written documents
- Includes an extensive bibliography and bibliographic essay
Back Jacket
Including more than 70 documents that span the history of slavery in America, African American Voices chronicles the widely varied experience of African American slaves. It presents 250 years of the collective life-cycle of an enslaved people through substantial excerpts from slave narratives, interviews with former slaves, and letters that document the experience of bondage, and supplies comprehensive introductions and head notes, a visual history of slavery, and an extensive bibliography.
Author Biography
Steven Mintz is Professor of History and Director, American Cultures Program, at the University of Houston. His thirteen books include Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life (1988; co-authored with Susan Kellogg); and a major interpretation of antebellum reform, Moralists & Modernizers: America's Pre-Civil War Reformers (1995). His most recent book, Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood, received the Association of American Publishers R.R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Scholarly Book of 2004; the Organization of American Historians 2004 Merle Curti Award for the best book in social history; and the Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award for the best non-fiction book of 2004.