- 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
Many Thousands Gone
The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
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$34.00 • £29.95 • €30.95
ISBN 9780674002111
Publication Date: 03/01/2000
Awards & Accolades
- Honorable Mention, 1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America
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