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Many Thousands Gone : The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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