John Curtis Perry

Myths & Realities of American Slavery: the True History of Slavery in America John Curtis Perry

With the slave reparation issue a hot topic in the 21st century do Americans today really know what slavery was like in the 19th century? Myths and Realities of American Slavery explores this issue in great detail. Author John Perry in this study helps to dispel the myths of American slavery and shed new light on the realities of the practice. Discover the answers to these important questions:

Did slavery cause the Civil War?

Were slaves found only in the South?

Did most Southerners own slaves?

Were all slave owners white?

Were all African Americans in the South slaves?

Were all the slaves relegated to fieldwork?

Were large "Tara" plantations the norm?

Were the majority of slaves taken from Africa sent to the United States?