Many Thousands Gone : the First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

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Contents

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 Generations9. 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