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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.
As the nature of the slaves' labor changed with place and time, so did the relationship between slave and master, and between slave and society. In this brilliant and vivid interpretation, Berlin demonstrates that the meaning of slavery and of race itself was continually renegotiated and redefined, as the nation lurched toward political and economic independence and grappled with the Enlightenment ideals that had inspired its birth.
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African Americans, History, Slavery, Social conditions, Politica e sociedade (escravidao), Noirs américains, Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer, Conditions sociales, Historia da america, Histoire, Sklaverei, Esclavage, Slavernij, Negros (em geral), Slavery, united states, history, African americans, history, African americans, social conditionsPlaces
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Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
2009, Harvard University Press
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Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
March 4, 2000, Belknap Press
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in English
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Many thousands gone: the first two centuries of slavery in North America
1998, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
in English
0674810929 9780674810921
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Many thousands gone: the first two centuries of slavery in North America
1998, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
in English
0674810929 9780674810921
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Many thousands gone: the first two centuries of slavery in North America.
Publish date unknown, Belknap Press/Harvard University
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-485) and index.
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