Gangs of black slaves toiling on large plantations in the Old South is the image that tends to dominate ideas of African American history in early America. Black and white servants working side-by-side in tobacco fields or blacks attaining their freedom long before the Civil War are not familiar portrayals of the people usually only seen in chattels. This volume is not just a story about enslavement; instead it attempts to show how slavery emerged -- how it became the defining condition of African and African-descended ...
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Gangs of black slaves toiling on large plantations in the Old South is the image that tends to dominate ideas of African American history in early America. Black and white servants working side-by-side in tobacco fields or blacks attaining their freedom long before the Civil War are not familiar portrayals of the people usually only seen in chattels. This volume is not just a story about enslavement; instead it attempts to show how slavery emerged -- how it became the defining condition of African and African-descended people in British colonial America. The volume explores black people's place in the western hemisphere before slavery, the African context of enslavement, the slow assembling both of the institution of black slavery and of the mentality of the enslavers, and what Africans carried with them into their captivity.
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