Title American slavery, American freedom : the ordeal of colonial Virginia / Edmund S. Morgan

Edition First edition Published New York : Norton, [1975]

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Description x, 454 pages : map ; 24 cm Contents The promised land. Dreams of liberation -- The lost colony -- Idle Indian and lazy Englishman -- The Jamestown fiasco -- The persistent vision -- Boom -- A new deal. Settling down -- Living with death -- The trouble with tobacco -- A golden fleecing -- The volatile society. The losers -- Discontent -- Rebellion -- Status quo -- Slavery and freedom. Toward slavery -- Toward racism -- Toward populism -- Toward the republic Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 433-441 Notes American Historical Association Albert A. Beveridge Award, 1976 Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 1976 Subject Slavery -- United States -- Virginia. Slavery -- Virginia -- History -- 17th century. Slavery -- Virginia. SUBJECT Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143765 Virginia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79022909 -- Social conditions -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008854 LC no. 75017534 ISBN 039305554X

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