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Publisher's complimentary copy. First edition (not stated per publisher's usual practice) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE EDITOR. xii, 188 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket soiled, stained, and toned with latter being obtrusively strong to spine; chips, tears, and some bumping at edges; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Reddish-brown cloth with black and gilt stamped lettering to spine. Text block edges foxed as are endpapers. Editor's family association copy per his five-line ink inscription "To Daddy | with deepest devotion | and heartfelt thanks | for my heritage - | Harry" upon front free endpaper; light foxing to several initial and rear leaves and to pages 28-29 where foxed paper slip announcing "Compliments of the University Press of Mississippi" is laid-in; interior leaves are otherwise mostly clean. Binding is firm. With Introduction by editor Harry P. Owens, Notes, and concluding Bibliographical Essay. Features seven essays: "The Irony of American Negro Slavery" by Carl N. Degler; "Slavery-The World's Burden" by Eugene D. Genovese; "Slavery and the American Mind" by David Brion Davis; "The Southern Slave Economy" by Stanley L. Engerman; "Slavery-The White Man's Burden" by William K. Scarborough; "Status and Social Structure in the Slave Community: Evidence from New Sources" by John W. Blassingame; "Slavery-The Historian's Burden" by Kenneth M. Stampp. Outgrowth of an October 1975 symposium "The Slave Experience in America: A Bicentennial Perspective" sponsored by the University of Mississippi. Dr. Harry Owens taught history at the University of Mississippi for thirty-two years with his career cumulating with an appointment as Professor Emeritus. This book was obtained directly from Dr. Owens' Oxford, Mississippi estate. ISBN 0878050744.…