Many thousands gone : the first two centuries of slavery in North America Ira Berlin

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berlin, Ira, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--United States--History--17th century.

Slavery.

Slavery--United States--History--18th century.

African Americans--Social conditions--17th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social conditions--18th century.

Physical Description:

x, 497 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c1998

Contents:

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

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-485) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

ISBN:

0674002113

OCLC:

52111450