Synopses & Reviews
Review
Covers not only events in America, but also the African heritage, the rise of slavery and the slave trade, slavery and race relations in the Caribbean, and the effect slave revolts there had in America....Foner's study will provide a necessary base for future scholarship.Library Journal
Table of Contents
v. 1. From Africa to the emergence of the cotton kingdom.--v. 2. From the emergence of the Cotton Kingdom to the eve of the Compromise of 1850.--v. 3 From the Compromise of 1850 to the end of the Civil War.