Many Thousands Gone - The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early seventeenth century through the American Revolution. Laboring as field hands on tobacco and rice plantations, as skilled artisans in port cities, or as soldiers along the frontier, generation after generation of black slaves struggled to create a world of their own in circumstances not of their own making. In a panoramic view that stretches from the North to the Chesapeake Bay and Carolina low country to the Mississippi Valley, Berlin reveals the diverse forms that slavery and freedom assumed before cotton wa king.

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A leading historian of southern and African-American life traces the evolution of black society in America from its creation in the early 17th century through the American Revolution. Berlin reveals the diverse forms that slavery and freedom assumed before cotton was king.

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• Authors: IRA Berlin
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2000
• EAN: 9780674002111
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00211-1
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 567 g
• Illustrations: 4 maps, 4 woodcuts, 3 tables
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; New Orleans, Geography, HISTORY / United States / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, c 1500 onwards to present day, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Caribbean, History of the Americas, Social and ethical issues, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Insurrection, chattel, planter class, slave societies, anthony johnson, manumission, fugitive, northern slaveholders, buying freedom, slave codes, sugar revolution, dutch west india company, charter generation, history early american slavery, artisanal labor, atlantic creoles