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03516aam a2200445 i 4500 001 B1A50FEEDEE811EBB94CC8CD21ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210707010029 008 210216s2021 ohu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021005744 020 $a 1606354221 020 $a 9781606354223 035 $a (OCoLC)1197850406 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E441 $b .S6355 2021 082 00 $a 306.3/620973 $2 23 245 00 $a Slavery : $b interpreting American history / $c edited by Aaron Astor and Thomas C. Buchanan. 264 1 $a Kent, Ohio : $b The Kent State University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xvi, 294 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Interpreting American history 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Americans have vigorously debated and interpreted the role of slavery in American life for as long as enslaved people and their descendants have lived in North America. Contemporaries and later writers and scholars up to the present day have explored the meaning of slavery as a system of labor, an ideological paradox in a 'free' political and social order, a violent mode of racial exploitation, and a global system of human commodification and trafficking. To fully understand the various ways in which slavery has been depicted and described is a difficult task. Like any other important historical issue, this requires a thorough grasp of the underlying history, methodological developments over time, and the contemporary politics and culture of historians' own times. And the case of slavery is further complicated, of course, by changes in the legal and political status of African Americans in the 20th and 21st centuries. Slavery: Interpreting American History, like other volumes in the Interpreting American History series, surveys interpretations of important historical eras and events, examining both the intellectual shifts that have taken place and various catalysts that drove those shifts. While the depth of Americans' historiographical engagement with slavery is not surprising given the turbulent history of race in America, the range and sheer volume of writing on the subject, spanning more than two centuries, can be overwhelming. Editors Aaron Astor and Thomas Buchanan, together with a team of expert contributors, highlight here the key debates and conceptual shifts that have defined the field. The volume will be an e specially helpful guide for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, professional historians new to the field, and other readers interested in the study of American slavery"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Slavery $z United States $x Historiography. 650 0 $a Slavery $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Social conditions. 650 7 $a African Americans $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799698 650 7 $a Slavery. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01120426 650 7 $a Slavery $x Historiography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01120451 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Astor, Aaron, $d 1973- $e editor. 700 1 $a Buchanan, Thomas C., $d 1967- $e editor. 830 0 $a Interpreting American history series 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018024438.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707011510.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B1A50FEEDEE811EBB94CC8CD21ECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search