Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin
English | Fourth printing, 2003 | ISBN: 0674810929, 0674002113 | 510 Pages | PDF | 1.97 MB
Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost two hundred years of African-American life in mainland North America, few slaves grew cotton, lived in the deep South, or embraced Christianity.