Original essays critiquing John W. Blassingame's pioneering 1972 work, 'The slave community : plantation life in the antebellum South,' which broke with histori

Taking into account the major recent studies, this volume presents an updated analysis of the life of the black slave--his African heritage, culture, family, ac

Spanning more than three centuries, from the colonial era to the present, Van Deburg's overview analyzes the works of American historians, dramatists, novelists

In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as s