New Studies in the History of American Slavery

Edited by Edward E. Baptist and Stephanie M. H. Camp

A new generation of scholars looks at the history of slavery in the New World

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"This collection sets the agenda for a new generation of slavery studies."
—Drew Gilpin Faust, author of Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

"A remarkably good collection of essays that conceives of 'American' in an appropriately expansive way and presents the work of some of the most innovative and dynamic young scholars in the field."
—Steven Hahn, author of A Nation Under our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration


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These essays, by some of the most prominent young historians writing about slavery, fill gaps in our understanding of such subjects as enslaved women, the Atlantic and internal slave trades, the relationships between Indians and enslaved people, and enslavement in Latin America. Inventive and stimulating, the essays model the blending of methods and styles that characterizes the new cultural history of slavery’s social, political, and economic systems.

Several common themes emerge from the volume, among them the correlation between race and identity; the meanings contained in family and community relationships, gender, and life’s commonplaces; and the literary and legal representations that legitimated and codified enslavement and difference. Such themes signal methodological and pedagogical shifts in the field away from master/slave or white/black race relations models toward perspectives that give us deeper access to the mental universe of slavery.

Topics of the essays range widely, including European ideas about the reproductive…

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Page count: 320 pp.
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Trim size: 6 x 9

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Edward E. Baptist is an assistant professor of history at Cornell University and the author of Creating an Old South. Stephanie M. H. Camp, associate professor of history at the University of Washington, is the author of Closer to Freedom.