Burton, Orville Vernon

Illuminates daily life in slave society in America from colonial times to the end of the Civil War. Provides information on the business and regulation of slavery, the plantation way of life, work, family and community, culture and leisure, health and medicine, religion, resistance and rebellion, and slavery and freedom in the North.

"In . . . [an] account of the Supreme Court's race-related jurisprudence, a . . . historian and a . . . civil rights lawyer scrutinize a legacy too often blighted by racial injustice. Discussing nearly 200 cases in historical context, the authors show the Court can still help fulfill the nation's promise of equality for all"--Provided by publisher.

A comprehensive history of the decades surrounding the presidency of Abraham Lincoln from the 1840s to 1900 that encompasses Lincoln's legacy of freedom for all.

This volume contains a chronology of slavery in North America and thematic sections on "Religion," "Health, Medicine, and Nutrition," "Regulating Slavery," "Resistance and Rebellion," "Reactions to Slavery," "The Geography of Slavery," and "War.".