Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves by Berlin, Ira

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Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2003. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 374 pp. .

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. Light edge wear to jacket. 2003 Hard Cover. 374 pp. Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later. Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when most American slaves grew cotton, resided in the deep South, and subscribed to Christianity. Here, however, Berlin offers a dynamic vision, a major reinterpretation in which slaves and their owners continually renegotiated the terms of captivity. Slavery was thus made and remade by successive generations of Africans and African Americans who lived through settlement and adaptation, plantation life, economic transformations, revolution, forced migration, war, and ultimately, emancipation. Berlin's understanding… Read More

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