The African-American Slave Trade (Lives in Crisis)
By R. G. Grant.
Description
This survey of the history of slavery in America describes conditions of slaves transported from Africa, their role in the American South’s plantation economy, the restrictions imposed on their lives, the political struggle between slave-holders and abolitionists, several important slave rebellions, and the end of American slavery with the American Civil War.Lives in Crisis books are vividly written historical accounts of momentous historical events and movements, supplemented with photographs, illustrations, maps, and contemporary cartoons and engravings. Illuminating sidebar materia...
ISBN(s)
0764124234, 9780764124235
