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

Berlin, Ira

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Published by Belknap Press Of Harvard University Press, 1998

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Cambridge. 1998. Belknap Press Of Harvard University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0674810929. 497 pages. hardcover. Front art - Above, front and back: details of ‘View of Mulberry’, Thomas Corma, oil on paper, Gibbes Museum of Art/Carolina Art Association; Below, front: detail from The Granger Collection, New York. Design by Marianne Perlak. keywords: African American History America Slavery. DESCRIPTION - Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost two hundred years of African-American life in mainland North America, few slaves grew cotton, lived in the deep South, or embraced Christianity. MANY THOUSANDS GONE traces the evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early seventeenth century through the Revolution. In telling their story, Ira Berlin, a leading historian of southern and African-American life, reintegrates slaves into the history of the American working class and into the tapestry of our nation. Laboring as field hands on tobacco and rice plantations, as skilled artisans in port cities, or soldiers along the frontier, generation after generation of African Americans struggled to create a world of their own in circumstances not of their own making. In a panoramic view that stretches from the North to the Chesapeake Bay and Carolina lowcounrrv to the Mississippi Valley, MANY THOUSANDS GONE reveals the diverse forms that slavery and freedom assumed before cotton was king. We witness the transformation that occurred as the first generations of creole slaves - who worked alongside their owners, free blacks, and indentured whites - gave way to the plantation generations, whose back-breaking labor was the sole engine of their society and whose physical and linguistic isolation sustained African traditions on American soil. As the nature of the slaves' labor changed with place and time, so did the relationship between slave and master, and between slave and society. In this brilliant and vivid interpretation, Berlin demonstrates that the meaning of slavery and of race itself was continually renegotiated and redefined, as the nation lurched toward political and economic independence and grappled with the Enlightenment ideals that had inspired its birth. inventory #25813.

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Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
Author
Berlin, Ira
Publisher
Belknap Press Of Harvard University Press
Publication year
1998
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Very Good in Dustjacket
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hardcover
Language
English
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0674810929
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9780674810921
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