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Author:

Berlin, Ira, 1941-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

x, 497 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Slavery--United States--History--17th century.
Slavery--United States--History--18th century.
African Americans--Social conditions--17th century.
African Americans--Social conditions--18th century.
Esclavage--États-Unis--Histoire--17e siècle.
Esclavage--États-Unis--Histoire--18e siècle.
Noirs américains--Conditions sociales--17e siècle.
Noirs américains--Conditions sociales--18e siècle.
Historia da america - politica e sociedade (escravidao)
Negros (em geral)
Slavernij.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-485) and index.

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.

Summary:

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 embraced Christianity. Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early seventeenth century through the Revolution. In telling their story, Ira Berlin, a leading historian of southern and African-American life, reintegrates slaves into the history of the American working class and into the tapestry of our nation. Laboring as field hands on tobacco and rice plantations, as skilled artisans in port cities, or soldiers along the frontier, generation after generation of African Americans 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 lowcountry to the Mississippi Valley, Many Thousands Gone reveals the diverse forms that slavery and freedom assumed before cotton was king. We witness the transformation that occurred as the first generations of creole slaves--who worked alongside their owners, free blacks, and indentured whites--gave way to the plantation generations, whose back-breaking labor was the sole engine of their society and whose physical and linguistic isolation sustained African traditions on American soil.

ISBN:

9780674810921
0674810929

LCCN:

98019336

Locations:

O4AX446 -- Chadwick Library

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls) — 306.3/62/097309032

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids) — 306.3/62/097309032

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

W7AX771 -- Urban Campus (Des Moines)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque) — 306.3/62/097309032

UTAX314 -- Emmaus Bible College Library (Dubuque)

N4AX745 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Emmetsburg (Emmetsburg)

HYAX325 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Estherville (Estherville)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola) — 306.362 B51m

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella) — 306.3620973 Be 7, m

WAPD715 -- Sheldon Public Library (Sheldon)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake) — 306.3/62/097309032

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

PWAX296 -- Southeastern Community College - West Burlington - Yohe Memorial Library (West Burlington) — E446.B49 1998