Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North AmericaToday 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. |
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... Slave workers in the agricultural North remained jacks - of - all - trades , en- gaging in all aspects of the ... trade expanded slowly during the early years of the eighteenth century , but given the minuscule size of the trade , even a ...
The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America Ira Berlin. South planters imported slaves ... slave- owner tried to recover a slave who had been captured by marauding ... trade , the demand for slaves pressed hard against domestic supplies ...
... Slave Trade , 1730-1830 ( Madison , Wisc . , 1988 ) , esp . chs . 8-9 , and Miller , “ A Marginal Institution on the Margin of the Atlantic System : The Portuguese Southern Atlantic Slave Trade in the Eighteenth Century , ” in Barbara L ...
Contents
Making Slavery Making Race | 1 |
Emergence of Atlantic Creoles in the Chesapeake | 29 |
Expansion of Creole Society in the North | 47 |
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Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America Ira Berlin Limited preview - 2000 |
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America Ira Berlin Limited preview - 2009 |
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America Ira Berlin No preview available - 1998 |