Unrequited Toil

Autorentext
Calvin Schermerhorn is a Professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He is author of The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815 1860 (2015), co-editor of Henry Goings's Rambles of A Runaway from Southern Slavery (2012), and author of Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South (2011).

Klappentext
Introduces the essential history of slavery from the American Revolution to post-Civil War Reconstruction in twelve thematic chapters.

Zusammenfassung
Written as an introduction for undergraduate students, Unrequited Toil explores the history of American slavery from the American Revolution to post-Civil War Reconstruction. Personal narratives are used across twelve chronologically ordered chapters to explore themes such as politics, economics, labor, literature, rebellion, and social conditions.

Inhalt
Introduction; 1. Counter-revolutionaries; 2. Slow death for slavery; 3. Cotton empire; 4. Black insurgency; 5. Financial chains; 6. Life in the quotidian; 7. Landscape of sexual violence; 8. Industrial discipline; 9. Narratives; 10. Geopolitics; 11. Abolition war; 12. No justice, no peace; Conclusion.

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