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| ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Prelude | |
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| Two Infant Slave Societies | |
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| Contours of the Plantation Experience | |
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| Two Plantation Worlds Two Landscapes Two Plantation Systems Two Populations | |
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| Material Life Housing Dress Diet | |
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| Fieldwork Seasons of Labor Organization of Labor Patterns of Labor | |
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| Skilled Work Occupational Structures The Life Cycle of Skilled Workers Drivers and Foremen Artisans Watermen Household Slaves | |
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| Encounters between Whites and Blacks | |
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| The Black World | |
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| African American Societies Africans Creoles and Africans Creoles Blacks and Indians Slaves and Free Blacks | |
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| Family Life Structures Stability Moving and Staying The Significance of Kin | |
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| African American Cultures Words Play Soul Coda. Two Mature Slave Societies Acknowledgments IndexIllustrations and Tables Plates | |
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| Industry and Idleness | |
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| Artifacts | |
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| Residence and Slave Quarters of Mulberry Plantation | |
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| Extraordinary Appearances in the Heavens, and on Earth | |
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| Ferry Tract Plantation | |
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| SW View of the Settlement of Hartford | |
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| Fairlawn Plantation | |
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| Frogmore Plantation | |
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| Plantation of John Middleton | |
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| Mortar nd Pestle | |
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| Plantation of John Bull | |
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| Indigo Culture | |
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| Perry Hall Slave Quarters with Field Hands at Work | |
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| Residence of George Heinrick Repold, Lexington Street near Fremont Avenue | |
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| Colono Ware Jug | |
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| Blacks Working on the James River | |
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| Portrait of a Man / Virginia Luxuries | |
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| Alic, a Fairthful and Humerous Old Servant | |
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| An Overseer Doing His Duty | |
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| The Old Plantation | |
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| Drum and Cane | |
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| Preparations for the Enjoyment of a Fine Sunday among the Blacks, Norfolk | |
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| A South View of Julianton Plantation, the Property of Francis Levett, Esqr.Maps | |
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| The Coastal Origins of African Slaves | |
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| The Distribution of Black Slaves in South Carolina, 1720-1790 | |
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| The Distribution of Black Slaves in Virginia, 1750-1790Figures | |
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| Adult Sex Ratios among Slaves in the Chesapeake and South Carolina, 1705-1775 | |
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| Female-Child Ratios among Slaves in the Chesapeake and South Carolina, 1705-1775 | |
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| Population Pyramids of Slaves in the Chesapeake, 1709-1791 | |
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| Population Pyramids of Slaves in the Lowcountry, 1758-1780 | |
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| The Months When Slaves Ran Away, 1732-1781 | |
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| Labor to Cultivate and Process Rice, circa 1800 | |
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| Age Profile of Africans and Creoles among Adult Male Slaves on Elias Ball's Comingtee Plantation, 1778 | |
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| Age Profile of Africans and Creoles among Slaves Belonging to Colonel Stapleton on Saint Helena Island, 1810 | |
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| Age Profile of Runaways in the Chesapeake and Lowcountry, 1732-1787 Tables | |
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| Plantation Size in South Carolina, 1720-1779 | |
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| Plantation Size in Virginia, 1720-1779 | |
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| Landholding in South Carolina Parishes, 1745-1785 | |
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| Landholding in Virginia Counties, 1768-1778 | |
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| Primary Production of Virginia and South Carolina Plantations, 1730-1776 | |
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| Primary Equipment on Virginia and South Carolina Plantations, 1730-1776 | |
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| Livestock on Virginia and South Carolina Plantations, 1730-1776 | |
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| Secondary and Tertiary Equipment on Virginia and South Carolina Plantations, 1730-1776 | |
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| African Immigration to Virginia and South Carolina, 1700-1790 | |
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| Africans in the Virginia and South Carolina Slave Populations, 1700-1800 | |
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| Coastal Origins of Virginia and South Carolina Africans, 1710s-1 | |