American Slavery, American Freedom,9780393324945

American Slavery, American Freedom

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Edition: 00
ISBN13: 9780393324945
ISBN10: 039332494X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-10-17
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

"If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country. With a new introduction. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize and the Albert J. Beveridge Award.

Table of Contents

MAP: Virginia in the Seventeenth Century ii
Acknowledgments vii
Preface to the second edition ix
BOOK I: THE PROMISED LAND 1(130)
1. DREAMS OF LIBERATION
3(22)
2. THE LOST COLONY
25(19)
3. IDLE INDIAN AND LAZY ENGLISHMAN
44(27)
4. THE JAMESTOWN FIASCO
71(21)
5. THE PERSISTENT VISION
92(16)
6. BOOM
108(23)
BOOK II: A NEW DEAL 131(82)
7. SETTLING DOWN
133(25)
8. LIVING WITH DEATH
158(22)
9. THE TROUBLE WITH TOBACCO
180(16)
10. A GOLDEN FLEECING
196(17)
BOOK III: THE VOLATILE SOCIETY 213(80)
11. THE LOSERS
215(20)
12. DISCONTENT
235(15)
13. REBELLION
250(21)
14. STATUS QUO
271(22)
BOOK IV: SLAVERY AND FREEDOM 293(96)
15. TOWARD SLAVERY
295(21)
16. TOWARD RACISM
316(22)
17. TOWARD POPULISM
338(25)
18. TOWARD THE REPUBLIC
363(26)
Footnote Abbreviations 389(6)
APPENDIX: Population Growth in Seventeenth-Century Virginia 395(38)
A Note on the Sources 433(10)
Index 443

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