`This should prove a useful book for undergraduate courses, and can certainly be recommended to those making up reading lists for seminars or tutorials. It will give students a gook flavour of the continuing vigour of the debates about American chattel slavery.' I`... this collection reveals a lively contemporary interest in the dimensions of racial cultural autonomy, in the social dynamics of the family, and in the balance of power within the family as a battleground of conflict and collaboration between the genders.' - Buckingham Univ Bruce Collins Social History Society Bulletin

• Contributors: Eugene Genovese, Emory University; Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Emory University; Bertram Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida; Sterling Stuckey, University of California, Riverside; Robert William Fogel, University of Chicago; Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Joan E. Cashin, Rutgers University, Camden; Norrece T. Jones Jr., Virginia Commonwealth University; Steven M. Stowe, Indiana University

`This should prove a useful book for undergraduate courses, and can certainly be recommended to those making up reading lists for seminars or tutorials. It will give students a gook flavour of the continuing vigour of the debates about American chattel slavery.' I`... this collection reveals a lively contemporary interest in the dimensions of racial cultural autonomy, in the social dynamics of the family, and in the balance of power within the family as a battleground of conflict and collaboration between the genders.' - Buckingham Univ Bruce Collins Social History Society Bulletin

• Contributors: Eugene Genovese, Emory University; Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Emory University; Bertram Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida; Sterling Stuckey, University of California, Riverside; Robert William Fogel, University of Chicago; Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University, New Brunswick; Joan E. Cashin, Rutgers University, Camden; Norrece T. Jones Jr., Virginia Commonwealth University; Steven M. Stowe, Indiana University