![]() ![]() ![]() He also argues that race was not just a social construct, but an historical one - and one that increasingly became linked to slavery over the course of the colonial period. For Berlin, modes of production hold a central place in these transformations and emphasizes how the tobacco, rice and indigo, sugar, and cotton revolutions all marked a transition for various areas in the place of slavery in society. ![]() ![]() He elaborates two basic types of society: a slave society and a society with slaves, and demonstrates how different areas could move back and forth between the two at different times. Instead, Berlin charts slavery during the 17th and 18th centuries across multiple dimensions - spatially across four different geographic areas (New England, the Chesapeake, the Lower South/Carolinas, and the Mississippi Valley) and temporally across three generations (the charter generation, plantation generation, and revolutionary generation). Many Thousands Gone The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America Ira Berlin Book details Book preview Table of contents Citations About This Book Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. He argues that historians have too long treated slavery as static, both spatially and temporally. Ira Berlin's synthesis of slavery during the colonial period answers his own call for a greater attention to the diversity of "slavery" in American history. ![]()
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