ix, 317 pages ; 21 cm

Distinguished historians examine the genesis, development, and impact of slavery in America and explore related areas of study

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-317)

Modern tensions and the origins of American slavery / Winthrop D. Jordan -- The evolution of slavery in British America and Latin America : a comparison / David Brion Davis -- Southern Negro slavery : a benign view / Ulrich B. Phillips -- Southern Negro slavery : "To make them stand in fear" / Kenneth M. Stampp -- The Negro slave in New York / Edgar J. McManus -- Slavery in microcosm : Burke County, North Carolina / Edward W. Phifer -- Slavery in the Southern cities / Richard C. Wade -- The slave economies of Cuba and Virginia : a comparison / Herbert S. Klein -- Slavery and the revolutionary generation / Robert McColley -- Slavery and the nullification crisis / William W. Freehling -- The militant South / John Hope Franklin -- The travail of slavery / Charles Grier Sellers Jr. -- Patterns of slavery in the Americas / David Brion Davis -- Historian and Southern Negro slavery / Kenneth M. Stampp -- Slavery and Negro personality / Stanley M. Elkins -- The profitability of slavery / Harold D. Woodman -- The slave South : an interpretation / Eugene D. Genovese -- Race relations in OldSouth industries / Robert Starobin -- Interpretations of slavery : the slave status in the Americas / Arnold A. Sio -- On Stanley M. Elkins's Slavery, a problem in American institutional and intellectual life / Eugene D. Genovese -- On Eugene D. Genovese's The political economy of slavery / Stanley M. Elkins -- On David Brion Davis's The problem of slavery in Western culture / M.I. Finley

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