Book contents
- The Cambridge World History of SlaveryVolume 4: AD 1804–AD 2016
- The Cambridge World History of Slavery
- The Cambridge World History of Slavery
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Series Editors’ Introduction
- Part I Overview
- Part II Slavery
- Chapter 4 The non-hispanic west indies
- Chapter 5 Slavery in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1804 to Abolition
- Chapter 6 Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
- Chapter 7 US Slavery and Its Aftermath, 1804–2000
- Chapter 8 Slavery in Africa, 1804–1936
- Chapter 9 Ottoman Slavery and Abolition in the Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 10 Slavery and Bondage in the Indian Ocean World, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Chapter 11 Slavery in India
- Chapter 12 Slave Resistance
- Chapter 13 Black Cultural Production in the Nineteenth Century
- Part III Abolition
- Part IV Aftermath
- Index
- References
Chapter 7 - US Slavery and Its Aftermath, 1804–2000
from Part II - Slavery
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2017
Book contents
- The Cambridge World History of SlaveryVolume 4: AD 1804–AD 2016
- The Cambridge World History of Slavery
- The Cambridge World History of Slavery
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Series Editors’ Introduction
- Part I Overview
- Part II Slavery
- Chapter 4 The non-hispanic west indies
- Chapter 5 Slavery in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1804 to Abolition
- Chapter 6 Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
- Chapter 7 US Slavery and Its Aftermath, 1804–2000
- Chapter 8 Slavery in Africa, 1804–1936
- Chapter 9 Ottoman Slavery and Abolition in the Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 10 Slavery and Bondage in the Indian Ocean World, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Chapter 11 Slavery in India
- Chapter 12 Slave Resistance
- Chapter 13 Black Cultural Production in the Nineteenth Century
- Part III Abolition
- Part IV Aftermath
- Index
- References
Summary
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge World History of Slavery , pp. 155 - 173Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017
References
A Guide to Further Reading
A very useful starting point is the recent collection of essays on slavery in the United States and Latin America: Paquette, Robert and Smith, Mark (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas (New York, 2010). This contains excellent essays on many countries and topics of interest and provides a basic guide to both the history and historiography of slavery in the Americas. A magisterial study of slavery in world history are the four volumes by David Brion Davis, culminating in his recent The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation (New York, 2014). The major book on the history of blacks in America from start to date is the ninth edition of John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Black Americans (New York, 2010).Google Scholar
Three classic works on US slavery published decades ago and demonstrating the changes in interpretation and in questions asked are: Phillips, Ulrich B., American Negro Slavery (New York, 1918); Kenneth Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (New York, 1956); and Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (New York, 1974). Each deals with a broad range of substantive issues, including the economics of slavery.Google Scholar
Key writings by slaves dealing with their experiences under slavery are those by Douglass, Frederick, particularly his third autobiography Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Written by Himself (Hartford, CT, 1882); Charles Ball, Fifty Years in Chains or the Life of an American Slave (New York, 1858); and Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave (Auburn, NY, 1853). Important discussions of major topics in southern history and the history of slavery include: Lewis Cecil Gray, History of Agriculture in the Southern United States to 1860 (Washington, DC, 1933), on southern agriculture; Douglass C. North, The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790–1860 (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1961), on international and interregional trade; Claudia Dale Goldin, Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820–1860: A Quantitative History (Chicago, IL, 1976), on urban slavery.Google Scholar
The current debate on the economics of slavery begins with the classic article by Conrad, Alfred H. and Meyer, John R., “The Economics of Slavery in the Ante Bellum South,” Journal of Political Economy, 66 (1958): 95–130. A major work on various aspects of slavery as an economic institution was Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, 2 vols. (Boston, MA, 1974), which became rather controversial and triggered numerous debates: see Paul A. David, Herbert G. Gutman, Richard Sutch, Peter Temin, and Gavin Wright, Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery (New York, 1976); Herbert G. Gutman, Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of Time on the Cross (Urbana, IL, 1975); and Gavin Wright, Slavery and American Economic Development (Baton Rouge, LA, 2006). In turn, it was defended by Robert Fogel, Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (New York, 1989).Google Scholar
For the end of slavery and its aftermath, see Higgs, Robert, Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy, 1865–1914 (Cambridge, 1977); and Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch, One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation (Cambridge, 1977). For an excellent discussion of post-emancipation black economic developments, see Robert A. Margo, “Obama, Katrina and the Persistence of Racial Inequality,” Journal of Economic History, 76 (2016): 301–41.Google Scholar
- 1
- Cited by