American slavery / 
William Dudley, book editor. 
 - San Diego, Calif. :  Greenhaven Press,   
 - 255 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  23 cm. 
 - Turning points .
 - Turning points (Greenhaven Press) .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247) and index. 
<br/><br/>Foreword -- Introduction -- Rise and fall of American slavery : a brief overview -- Origins of American slavery -- Atlantic slave trade / Daniel C. Littlefield ; Establishing slavery in the southern colonies / John B. Boles ; Slavery in the northern colonies / Donald R. Wright -- Slavery and the American Revolution -- American slavery : the American Revolution (the demise of slavery in the North) / Peter Kolchin ; Failure of gradual emancipation in the South / Gary B. Nash -- House divided : American slavery in the Antebellum era -- Missouri Compromise of 1820 / Roger L. Ransom ; John C. Calhoun and the Southern defense of slavery / Nathaniel Weyl & William Marina ; Abolitionist movement provokes the South / William W. Freehling ; Social tensions within Southern plantation society / Ronald Takaki ; Fugitive slaves exacerbate the sectional crisis over slavery / James Oakes ; Slavery and sectional tensions in the 1850s / John Hope Franklin & Albert A. Moss Jr. -- Civil War and the end of American slavery -- Slaves seek freedom in the Civil War / Merton L. Dillon ; Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation / James M. McPherson ; How slaves responded to their emancipation / Leon F. Litwack ; Reconstruction : the aftermath of emancipation and Civil War / David W. Blight -- Was the Civil War necessary to end slavery? -- War was not necessary to end American slavery / Jeffrey Rogers Hummel ; Significance of America's Civil War and abolition of slavery in world history / Robert W. Fogel. 
<br/><br/> A collection of essays that examine the influence slavery had on American history, politics, literature, and culture. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0737702133 9780737702132 0737702125 9780737702125 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99055866 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Slavery--History.--United States<br/>Slavery.<br/>Slavery - United States - History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E441  / .A578 2000 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.3/62/0973