Many thousands gone : the first two centuries of slavery in North America Cover Image

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

Berlin, Ira, 1941- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0674810929
Physical Description: x, 497 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

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

Formatted Contents Note:

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.