The book describes slave attitudes and actions; slave-master relationships; the conditions of slave life, including diet, physical treatment, working conditions, housing, forms of resistance, and black overseers; slave cultural institutions ...

The momentum for Black suffrage would be further threatened by conflicts within the Republican Party over the issue.

This brief edition portrays the rich fabric of social history - the experiences of ordinary men, women, and children - into more traditional political, diplomatic, and economic narrative to tell a comprehensive story of American history.

"What Shall We Do with the Negro?" serves as a corrective in offering a more realistic, more nuanced, and less celebratory approach to understanding this crucial period in American history.

This brief edition portrays the rich fabric of social history - the experiences of ordinary men, women, and children - into more traditional political, diplomatic, and economic narrative to tell a comprehensive story of American history.

The slaveholding elite which had led the South out of the Union now had to solidify its support among the nonslaveholding small farmers, a class that constituted the bulk of the white population.But Jefferson Davis and the new government ...

This textbook history of the United States, beginning in 1492 and going through the present day, is a shortened version of the 1982 edition.

Featuring a strong social and thematic narrative, the authors combine the experience of ordinary men, women and children with the more traditional political, diplomatic and economic narrative in order to tell the whole story of American ...

This textbook history of the United States, beginning in 1492 and going through the present day, is a shortened version of the 1982 edition.

Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter’s 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, the renowned historian Paul Escott has composed ten concise but deeply learned and incisive biographies of key ...