Many Thousands Gone : : The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America / / Ira Berlin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Berlin, Ira,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Prologue: Making Slavery, Making Race
• I. SOCIETIES WITH SLAVES: The Charter Generations
• Introduction
• 1. Emergence of Atlantic Creoles in the Chesapeake
• 2. Expansion of Creole Society in the North
• 3. Divergent Paths in the Lowcountry
• 4. Devolution in the Lower Mississippi Valley
• II. SLAVE SOCIETIES: The Plantation Generations
• Introduction
• 5. The Tobacco Revolution in the Chesapeake
• 6. The Rice Revolution in the Lowcountry
• 7. Growth and the Transformation of Black Life in the North
• 8. Stagnation and Transformation in the Lower Mississippi Valley
• III. SLAVE AND FREE: The Revolutionary Generations
• Introduction
• 9. The Slow Death of Slavery in the North
• 10. The Union of African-American Society in the Upper South
• 11. Fragmentation in the Lower South
• 12. Slavery and Freedom in the Lower Mississippi Valley
• Epilogue: Making Race, Making Slavery
• Tables
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index