The Meaning of Slavery in the North (Labor in America)

Garland Publishing is proud to announce the inception of a new series of path-breaking works in the study of African American history. Individual volumes will explore a wide range of topics: methods of resistance, gender studies, cross-racial interactions, critical literary analysis, comparative emancipation experiences, development of black nationalism, intra-racial class structures, religious life, Revolutionary War and Civil War studies, and the Civil Rights movement.Comprising innovative collections of original articles as well as book-length monographs, Crosscurrents in African American History offers students, scholars, and general readers an up-to-date survey of the state of the field. The volumes will reflect contemporary and innovative methodologies, with the work of younger researchers well represented.Southern cotton planters and Northern textile mill owners maintained what has been called "an unholy alliance between the lords of the lash and the lords of the loom". This collection of original essays focuses on the central role of slavery in the early development of industrialization in the United States as well as on the interconnections among the histories of African Americans, women, and labor. Those Valuable People, The Africans / Ronald Bailey -- For The Sake Of Commerce / Myron O. Stachiw -- Slavery In The North / Thomas H. O'connor -- The Meaning Of Slavery Within A National Context / Larry K. Menna -- The Northern Churches And The Moral Problem Of Slavery / John R. Mckivigan -- Liberal Religion And The Reform Impulse In Antebellum America / Carolyn Williams -- Needles, Pens, And Petitions / Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven -- Blackface Minstrelsy, Vernacular Comics, And The Politics Of Slavery In The North / Alexander Saxton. Edited By David Roediger And Martin Blatt. Collection Of Essays Consists Of Substantially Revised Papers Delivered At The Twelfth Lowell Conference On Industrial History, June 3-5, 1993. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Those valuable people, the Africans / Ronald Bailey For the sake of commerce / Myron O. Stachiw Slavery in the North / Thomas H. O'Connor Southern Whiggery and economic development / Larry K. Menna The northern churches and the moral problem of slavery / John R. McKivigan Feminist abolitionists in Boston and Philadelphia / Carolyn Williams Needles, pens, and petitions / Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven Blackface minstrelsy, vernacular comics, and the politics of slavery in the North / Alexander Saxton.