African American voices : a documentary reader, 1619-1877 / edited by Steven Mintz.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Uncovering the past (Malden, Mass.)
Other Authors: Mintz, Steven, 1953-
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Edition:Fourth edition.
Series:Uncovering the past (Malden, Mass.)
Subjects:
Enslaved persons > United States > History > Sources.
Enslaved persons > United States > Social conditions > Sources.
Slavery > Southern States > History > Sources.
African Americans > History > Sources.
African Americans > Social conditions > Sources.
Genre:
Sources.
Physical Description:xiv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "Death's Gwineter lay his cold icy hands on me": Enslavement
  • God's A-Gwineter trouble de water": The Middle Passage and arrival
  • "A change is gonna come": Slavery in the Era of the American Revolution
  • "We raise de Wheat, Dey gib us the Corn":Conditions of life
  • "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen": Visual history of Slavery
  • "O Mother don't you weep": Women, Children, and families
  • "Go home to my lord and be free": Religion
  • "Oppressed so hard they could not stand": Punishment
  • "Let my people go": Resistance and flight
  • "The walls came tumblin' down": Emancipation.