Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America

by Peter H. Wood

Book Overview

Engaging and accessibly written, Strange New Land explores the history of slavery and the struggle for freedom before the United States became a nation. Beginning with the colonization of North America, Peter Wood documents the transformation of slavery from a brutal form of indentured servitude to a full-blown system of racial domination. Strange New Land focuses on how Africans survived this brutal process--and ultimately shaped the contours of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195158237
• ISBN13: 9780195158236
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A Quck and Basic Read

I recommend this book if you have little or no knowledge. It is a quick introduction. He also includes a wonderful bibliography, if you wish to read more. I will vouch for the majority of the sources, in that I have already read many of them and give them high marks. If you are the type of reader who is not too keen on burdensome scholoarly works, these sources are a good bet. The average reader will enjoy.