American slavery, American freedom : the ordeal of colonial Virginia / Edmund S. Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, Edmund S. (Edmund Sears), 1916-2013.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Virginia--History--17th century.

Slavery.

Social conditions.

History.

Virginia--Social conditions--17th century.

Virginia.

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Physical Description:

x, 454 pages : map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2003.

Summary:

The men who came together to found the independent United States either held slaves or were willing to join hands with those who did. George Washington, hero of the Revolution, was the master of several hundred slaves. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, owned more than 200 men, women, and children while eloquently defending the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In this classic work, originally published in 1976, through a meticulous history of Virginia from its earliest settlement through the seventeenth century boom in tobacco, the gradual replacement of servitude with slavery, and the rise of republican ideology, historian Morgan reveals the deep and interlocking relationship between these seemingly contradictory ideas.--From publisher description.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-441) and index.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

ISBN:

039332494X

9780393324945

OCLC:

52696637