Many Thousands Gone The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

Name: Many Thousands Gone The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
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ISBN: 9780674002111

ISBN-10: 0674002113

ISBN-13: 9780674002111

Edition: 1998

Authors: Ira Berlin

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This text traces the evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early 17th century through the Revolution. In telling their story, Ira Berlin reintegrates slaves into the tapestry of the nation.

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Ira Berlin is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.



Prologue: Making Slavery, Making Race



Societies With Slaves: The Charter Generations



Emergence of Atlantic Creoles in the Chesapeake



Expansion of Creole Society in the North



Divergent Paths in the Lowcountry



Devolution in the Lower Mississippi Valley



Slave Societies: The Plantation Generations



The Tobacco Revolution in the Chesapeake



The Rice Revolution in the Lowcountry



Growth and the Transformation of Black Life in the North



Stagnation and Transformation in the Lower Mississippi Valley



Slave And Free: The Revolutionary Generations



The Slow Death of Slavery in the North



The Union of African-American Society in the Upper South



Fragmentation in the Lower South



Slavery and Freedom in the Lower Mississippi Valley


Epilogue: Making Race, Making Slavery


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