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The Slavery Reader brings together the most recent and essential writings onslavery. The focus is on Atlantic slavery the enforced movement of millionsof Africans from their homelands into the Americas and the complex historicalstory of slavery in the Americas. Spanning almost five centuries the latefifteenth until the midnineteenth the articles trace the range and impact ofslavery on the modern Western world.Key themes includethe origins and development of American slaveryworkfamily gender and communityslave cultureslave economyresistancerace and social structureAfricans in the Atlantic world.Together with the editors clear and authoritative commentary and asubstantial introduction this volume will become central to the study ofslavery. «
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