The Slavery Reader

The Slavery Reader brings together the most recent and essential writings on slavery. The focus is on Atlantic slavery – the enforced movement of millions of Africans from their homelands into the Americas, and the complex historical story of slavery in the Americas. Spanning almost five centuries – the late fifteenth until the mid-nineteenth – the articles trace the range and impact of slavery on the modern Western world.

Key themes include:

the origins and development of American slaveryworkfamily, gender and communityslave cultureslave economyresistancerace and social structureAfricans in the Atlantic world.Together with the editors' clear and authoritative commentary and a substantial introduction, this volume will become central to the study of slavery.