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Many Thousands Gone

The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

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PAPERBACK

$34.00 • £29.95 • €30.95

ISBN 9780674002111

Publication Date: 03/01/2000

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512 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

4 maps, 4 woodcuts, 3 tables

Belknap Press

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  • Prologue: 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
  • Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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