Secondary school, public, and academic libraries will welcome this excellent one-volume encyclopedia. . . . Scholars seeking facts outside their specialty as well as generalists investigating aspects of American slavery can benefit from the Dictionary. A good subject index and cross-references facilitate access. Though some of the information can be found elsewhere, the focus here is unique, the articles combine substance with fluent style, and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Library Journal (starred ...
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Secondary school, public, and academic libraries will welcome this excellent one-volume encyclopedia. . . . Scholars seeking facts outside their specialty as well as generalists investigating aspects of American slavery can benefit from the Dictionary. A good subject index and cross-references facilitate access. Though some of the information can be found elsewhere, the focus here is unique, the articles combine substance with fluent style, and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Library Journal (starred review) This dictionary is the first comprehensive reference on Afro-American slavery to appear since the 1960s. It fills a great gap in the historiography of slavery that has been created by the proliferation of modern slavery studies in the past twenty-five years, and provides the opportunity for synthesizing the best literature on the many and diverse topics relating to the slavery experience in North America. Miller and Smith include essays on the social, institutional, intellectual, and political aspects of slavery, written by leading experts in the field. The book covers a wide selection of materials in almost 300 articles that examine regional and geographical differences and changes in slavery from the first English settlement in North America to Reconstruction. The contributors offer both narrative summaries and interpretive arguments, and the editors have provided an explanatory introduction and a comprehensive subject index. Special care has been taken to include suggestions for further reading for each entry, and the topics have been selected for their importance to both specialists and nonspecialists.
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Good. Ex-library. This is an ex-library book with the usual markings. The book has a slight amount of shelf wear. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 882 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Very Good to Near Fine. Published Without Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 866 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Published without dust jacket.
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Good. No Jacket. 1988 Greenwood Press edition. Ex-library with all usual marks thereof. A solid, clean copy with moderate cover wear and pristine text.
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Near Fine with no dust jacket. 0313238146. Black cloth cover is lightly bumped at upper front corners otherwise near pristine. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and pristine. Book has never been cracked open.; 9.6 X 6.4 X 2.1 inches; 882 pages.
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Very Good. Book Ex lib. (xvi) 866 pages, a few maps, chronology, editors and contributors, index, 8vo, original navy cloth. Very good+, withdrawn stamp, a few labels, no marks cover, contents near fine; no dust jacket.
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Very Good. No Jacket Issued. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 866pp. An extensive list of well discussed names and terms related to Afro-American slavery. Entries are presented in alphabetical order with a small, selected bibliography and author's name listed for each. Includes a chronology of Afro-American Slavery, and an index of the listed names/terms. End-paper removed.
