"This book views slavery in a new light and underscores the human tragedy at the heart of the American story."--Jacket

"This book views slavery in a new light and underscores the human tragedy at the heart of the American story."--Jacket.

Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century. The essays presented in New Frontiers of Slavery represent new an

Davis begins with the dramatic "Amistad" case, and then looks at slavery in the American South and the abolitionists who defeated one of human history's greates

Steven Hahn opens our eyes to the scope of African American contributions to American political life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He explores the