Paquette, R: Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas

Robert L. Paquette and Mark M. Smith: Introduction: Slavery in the Americas; Part I: Places; 1: Francisco Scarano: Spanish Caribbean (Puerto Rico and Spanish Hispaniola); 2: K. Russell Lohse: Mexico and Central America; 3: Peter Blanchard: Spanish South American Mainland; 4: Matt D. Childs and Manuel Barcia Paz: Cuba; 5: Robert W. Slenes: Brazil; 6: Trevor Burnard: British West Indies and Bermuda; 7: Henk den Heijer: Dutch Caribbean; 8: John Garrigus: French Caribbean; 9: Daniel C. Littlefield: United States (Colonial and Revolutionary); 10: Jeff Forret: United States (Early Republic and Antebellum); Part II: Themes, Methods, and Sources; 11: Stephen Behrendt: The Transatlantic Slave Trade; 12: John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard: The Origins of Slavery in the Americas; 13: Kenneth F. Kiple: Biology and African Slavery; 14: Allan Gallay: Indian Slavery; 15: Timothy Lockley: Race and Slavery; 16: Jonathan Daniel Wells: Class and Slavery; 17: Douglas Ambrose: Slavery and Religion; 18: Jeffrey Robert Young: Proslavery Ideology; 19: Paul Finkelman: United States Slave Law; 20: Douglas R. Egerton: Slave Resistance; 21: Kevin Dawson: Slave Culture; 22: Peter Coclanis: The Economics of Slavery; 23: Kirsten Wood: Gender and Slavery; 24: Eugene D. Genovese and Douglas Ambrose: Masters; 25: John Stauffer: Abolition and Antislavery; 26: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara: Emancipation; 27: Stewart R. King: Slavery and the Haitian Revolution; 28: Michael Tadman: Internal Slave Trades; 29: Richard H. Steckel: The Demography of Slavery; 30: Enrico Dal Lago: Comparative Slavery; 31: Kathleen Hilliard: Finding Slave Voices; 32: Theresa Singleton: Archaeology and Slavery; Stanley L. Engerman: Epilogue: Post-Emancipation Adjustments

Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is author or editor of a dozen books, including Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South, winner of the Organization of American Historians' Avery O. Craven Award and South Carolina Historical Society's Book of the Year in 1997. He is the current President of The Historical Society.

Written by a variety of scholars ranging from some of the doyens of the subject ... to some promising newcomers, the individual contributions provide incisive, nuanced introductions to a wide range of topics and themes. Keith Masoon, English Historical Review Will serve as an excellent resource for serious history students and instructors, who will find this an invaluable class resource. Recommended. Julie Biando Edwards, Library Journal This book is comprehensive and is required reading for anyone interested in teaching a course on slavery in the Americas...essential... The editors and contributors are to be applauded for successfully piecing together the many different threads of a most complex and interesting field. David Ryden, History: Reviews of New Books This handbook provides a very valuable introduction to trends in the recent historiography on slavery in the Americas. The readers of the volume (as well as its editors) have been well served by the craftsmanship and erudition of those who have contributed to it. David Richardson, H-Soz-u-Kult an excellent work.Its articles are uniformly well crafted, edited and documented. Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies