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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berlin, Ira, 1941-2018 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.
Colección:ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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
  • 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
  • Union of African-American society in the upper South
  • Fragmentation in the lower South
  • Slavery and freedom in the lower Mississippi Valley.