Review
"The Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery is an indispensable tool for all students of human bondage. In going through the volume and especially in reading the up-to-date essays on the legal, economic, and comparative aspects of slavery, one wonders how it was ever possible to get along without such a work."-John Hope Franklin James B. Duke Professor Emeritus Duke University
Product Description
In 1988 Greenwood Press published the Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery to wide acclaim by the library community and scholars in the field. The Dictionary was issued at a time when the study of slavery commanded a central place in American historical thinking and, increasingly, in a host of other disciplines as well. Interest in slavery has not abated. Yet, despite a growing sophistication in methodology and complexity of analysis, the basic contours of the study of slavery remain much the same as when the Dictionary first appeared. To take the latest scholarship into account, the editors have added a new introduction surveying the principal themes in research and writing over the past decade and have appended a bibliography, arranged by broad thematic areas keyed to topics treated in the text.