Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

Author: Berlin, IraBrand: Belknap PressEdition: 2nd PrintingFeatures: Used Book in Good ConditionBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 512Release Date: 04-03-2000Details: Product Description 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 generat