Slavery in Mississippi

by Charles S. Sydnor

Slavery in Mississippi, first published in 1933, is a deeply researched and tightly argued social and economic study of slave life in Mississippi by Charles S. Sydnor (1898-1954). Inspired by Ulrich B. Phillips's American Negro Slavery (1918) and Life and Labor in the Old South (1929), Sydnor strived to test Phillips's contention that slavery was simultaneously a benign institution for African American slaves and an unprofitable one for their masters.Sydnor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611173329
• ISBN13: 9781611173321
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 2720 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"