Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0486409104, Paperback)

Comprehensive, well-documented, and impartial 1896 classic draws upon a wealth of primary source materials to examine slavery in the U.S. Topics include slavery’s consideration by the Constitutional Convention, the South’s plantation economy and its influence on the slave trade, the role of Northern merchants in financing the slave trade during the 19th century, and much else. Of major interest to students of African-American history and anyone concerned with the struggle for racial equality in America.