Slavery

by R.G. Grant

Slavery is a comprehensive look at the history of an abomination. Words and images reveal the story of slavery around the world and across the centuries, focusing on slavery in the United States in the 1800s. This authoritative, heavily illustrated guide looks at the escalation of the Atlantic slave trade, the African peoples who were targeted, the lives they led as slaves in the American South, the slow growth of worldwide anti-slavery movements, abolition in the United States, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and more. Understand slavery-and how America's slave past has influenced its racial atmosphere today-with Slavery .

Genres: History, Nonfiction

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

R.G. Grant is a historian who has written extensively on many aspects and periods of history. Among his more than fifty published books are: Battle, Soldier, and Battle at Sea (2005, 2007, 2008). He was also a major contributor to the ITV Visual History of the Twentieth Century (1999) and consultant for Chronology of World History (1995). He is also a contributor to 1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History, where earlier versions of his contributions to Britannica first appeared.

Reviews

[Deshaun · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book talks about slavery from many different points of history but has a main focus point on the history of slavery in the Americas, and specifically the U.S. The book uses a mix of historical images, letters, articles, and maps to set a setting for the Atlantic slave trade. The book also uses statistics to provide accurate information pertaining to the slave trade as well as personal letters from former slaves to make sure the audience can try to understand the horror that slaves had to endure during the slave trade.
In my opinion the book relied to much on its visual representations to try and get an informative message across. For most of the pages the visuals came first and the text that provides context seemed more of an afterthought. If the book would have given more historical texts or letters than the book would have more meaning because I can connect easier to the thoughts and feelings of other people better than I can paintings trying to recapture the historic setting.

[Igor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good overview.

[Dimitris Papastergiou · Rating 4 out of 5]

Humanity Sucks.

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Slavery by R.G.Grant talks about slavery from ancient times, american/African slavery, and slavery today. This is a non-fiction book that talks about one of the most biggest issue in our world in the past and present. The book has many sections about slavery. Background to slavery, The Atlantic slave trade, how the slave trade worked, life in slavery, the fight for freedom, abolishing slavery in the Americas, and aftermath of slavery. This book holds so much information about slavery and how it's a very big issue. There are many people who tried to stop slavery but unfortunately did not succeed very much. For example Lincoln, he was sadly assassinated by John Wilkes Booth because he did not feel like the black people should be treated the same way as white people do.

I picked this book because Black history month seemed very interesting to me.

I finished this book because it had facts that I never knew about and now I do.

I recommend this book for teachers. It's like a guide to talk to the students about black history month and fun facts.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

Classic DK style - looks like an "Eyewitness Book." It was interesting, but far from comprehensive. I like that it began with slavery in ancient times - Greeks, Romans, Syrians, etc., but I would have liked more information. The last spread covers slavery as it exists today, and I thought that a single spread was entirely too brief. The book focuses on enslavement of Africans and their descendants, but doesn't cover much about what happened after the civil war (and yet, there is a photo of the Obama family near the back.) It has a lot of interesting information, and I learned from it. I just think if you can only purchase one new book on slavery, this is not the one. (That being said, I absolutely recommend it for purchase if you have enough money to buy two or more books, or if you have lots of fans of the Eyewitness style.)

[Bookend McGee · Rating 2 out of 5]

2 and a half stars.