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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
1998.
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| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.