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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.Description: x, 497 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0674810929
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E446 .B49 1998
Contents:
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.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks E446.B49 1998 1 Available 33710000798418

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

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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.