Many thousands gone : the first two centuries of slavery in North America / Ira Berlin.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.Description: x, 497 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 0674810929
- E446 .B49 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-485) and index.
WAR, NEWBERY,
Prologue: Making slavery, making race -- 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 -- Rice revolution in the lowcountry -- Growth and the transformation of black life in the North --Stagnation and transformation in the lower Mississippi Valley -- 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 -- Epilogue: Making race, making slavery.