LEADER 05333nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910784622803321 005 20230929201457.0 010 $a0-674-02082-0 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674020825 035 $a(CKB)1000000000396563 035 $a(dli)HEB00069 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000084488 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11123695 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084488 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10168761 035 $a(PQKB)10241281 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000197592 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12042907 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000197592 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10160605 035 $a(PQKB)11749683 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300728 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300728 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10331314 035 $a(OCoLC)923117025 035 $a(DE-B1597)584841 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674020825 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000003603071 035 $a(OCoLC)1322125648 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000396563 100 $a19980403d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMany thousands gone$b[electronic resource] $ethe first two centuries of slavery in North America /$fIra Berlin 210 $aCambridge, MA $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d1998 215 $a1 online resource (x, 497 p. )$cill., maps ; 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-00211-3 311 $a0-674-81092-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 379-485) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPrologue: Making Slavery, Making Race -- $tI. SOCIETIES WITH SLAVES: The Charter Generations -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Emergence of Atlantic Creoles in the Chesapeake -- $t2. Expansion of Creole Society in the North -- $t3. Divergent Paths in the Lowcountry -- $t4. Devolution in the Lower Mississippi Valley -- $tII. SLAVE SOCIETIES: The Plantation Generations -- $tIntroduction -- $t5. The Tobacco Revolution in the Chesapeake -- $t6. The Rice Revolution in the Lowcountry -- $t7. Growth and the Transformation of Black Life in the North -- $t8. Stagnation and Transformation in the Lower Mississippi Valley -- $tIII. SLAVE AND FREE: The Revolutionary Generations -- $tIntroduction -- $t9. The Slow Death of Slavery in the North -- $t10. The Union of African-American Society in the Upper South -- $t11. Fragmentation in the Lower South -- $t12. Slavery and Freedom in the Lower Mississippi Valley -- $tEpilogue: Making Race, Making Slavery -- $tTables -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aToday most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost two hundred years of African-American life in mainland North America, few slaves grew cotton, lived in the deep South, or embraced Christianity. Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early seventeenth century through the Revolution. In telling their story, Ira Berlin, a leading historian of southern and African-American life, reintegrates slaves into the history of the American working class and into the tapestry of our nation. Laboring as field hands on tobacco and rice plantations, as skilled artisans in port cities, or soldiers along the frontier, generation after generation of African Americans struggled to create a world of their own in circumstances not of their own making. In a panoramic view that stretches from the North to the Chesapeake Bay and Carolina lowcountry to the Mississippi Valley, Many Thousands Gone reveals the diverse forms that slavery and freedom assumed before cotton was king. We witness the transformation that occurred as the first generations of creole slaves?who worked alongside their owners, free blacks, and indentured whites?gave way to the plantation generations, whose back-breaking labor was the sole engine of their society and whose physical and linguistic isolation sustained African traditions on American soil. As the nature of the slaves? labor changed with place and time, so did the relationship between slave and master, and between slave and society. In this fresh and vivid interpretation, Berlin demonstrates that the meaning of slavery and of race itself was continually renegotiated and redefined, as the nation lurched toward political and economic independence and grappled with the Enlightenment ideals that had inspired its birth. 410 0$aACLS Humanities E-Book. 606 $aSlavery$zUnited States$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aSlavery$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions$y17th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions$y18th century 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 676 $a306.3/62/097309032 700 $aBerlin$b Ira$f1941-2018.$0242294 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784622803321 996 $aMany thousands gone$92382686 997 $aUNINA