Slavery in America

From its beginnings, the European colonization of North America was inextricably linked with the institution of slavery. While millions of Europeans crossed the Atlantic in order to start a new life, millions of Africans unwillingly made the journey aboard squalid slave ships. On reaching the foreign shore, enslaved Africans were often separated from their families and traditions to spend their lives laboring on plantations. Slavery in America, Revised Edition tells the story of slavery in North America, including the slave trade on the west coast of Africa and the transatlantic journey to North America, slave auctions, plantation life, escape attempts and insurrections, the Civil War and eventual emancipation, and the turbulent period of Reconstruction. The authors capture the complexities and extent of slavery and document the wide differences in the ways people reacted to this terrible institution.

Dorothy Schneider taught at the University of Nebraska and at Utica College and was academic dean at Upsala College and Marymount College. She has also taught in Japan and Korea for the University of Maryland Carl J. Schneider taught at numerous universities, including the University of New Hampshire, the University of Nebraska, Kirkland College, and Montclair State University, where he was dean of graduate studies. He has held a Fulbright scholarship in Germany, worked as an adviser in the founding of Ataturk University in Turkey, and taught American military personnel in Japan and Korea for the University of Maryland