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Many thousands gone: the first two centuries of slavery in North America

Berlin, Ira, 1941-

Year: 1998.

Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

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Frontmatter

Making Slavery, Making Race

I. SOCIETIES WITH SLAVES: The Charter Generations

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

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

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

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Title:

Many thousands gone : the first two centuries of slavery in North America Ira Berlin.

Author:

Berlin, Ira, 1941-

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Many thousands gone : the first two centuries of slavery in North America Ira Berlin.
Berlin, Ira, 1941-
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.

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Subject Headings:

• Slavery -- United States -- History -- 18th century
• African Americans -- Social conditions -- 17th century
• African Americans -- Social conditions -- 18th century
• Slavery -- United States -- History -- 17th century

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