"Originally published in 1918, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips’s American Negro Slavery was widely hailed upon publication as the most comprehensive and accurate examination of enslaved Africans in the South by an academic historian. In the 1950s, however, a new generation of historians―led by Kenneth Stamp―challenged many of Phillips’s inaccurate and racist views about slavery. While many historians today acknowledge that American Negro Slavery is a pioneering work, most agree that Phillips’s misunderstandings, misinterpretations, and overt racism profoundly diminish his conclusions." -- From Amazon.com.

The early exploitation of Guinea -- The maritime slave trade -- The sugar islands -- The tobacco colonies -- The rice coast -- The northern colonies -- Revolution and reaction -- The closing of the African slave trade -- The introduction of cotton and sugar -- The westward movement -- The domestic slave trade -- The cotton regime -- Types of large plantations -- Plantation management -- Plantation labor -- Plantation life -- Plantation tendencies -- Economic views of slavery: a survey of the literature -- Business aspects of slavery -- Town slaves -- Free negroes -- Slave crime -- The force of the law.