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American Slavery, American Freedom
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 975.502
EAN: 9780393324945
ISBN: 039332494X
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: 2003-10
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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Editorial Review:
"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.
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Rating:  - Excellent
This very well written and researched book is an effort to answer a single interesting question; why were so many of the great Founders slaveholding Virginians? To address this apparent paradox, Morgan investigates the history of colonial Virginia from its founding to the mid-18th century, reconstructing the evolution of the planter caste and their attitudes. Morgan shows that despite the intentions of the founders of the Virginia colony, its economic life rapidly became centered on production ... Read More
Rating: - Great book
I wanted a better understanding of day-to-day life in Colonial Virginia, from the founding of Jamestown forward to 1776. I also wanted a better understanding of the origins of slavery in Virginia. Mr. Morgan brings this information home in staggering detail, yet his writing style makes it an "easy read". The research that must have gone into this book is truly amazing, as reflected by the thorough footnotes and citations. Though I am no expert myself, an amateur history buff at best, I was certainly ... Read More
Rating:  - No slavery
This was a meticulously researched history of the economic and social conditions that facilitated the establishment of slavery in Virginia. Very well done. But if you are looking for a book about 'American Slavery,' this is not it. I was disappointed. I expected a broader book exploring the early decades of slavery throughout America, as the title suggests. But I reached page 355 here and realized unhappily that the end was approaching and no space had been devoted to slavery. Find the history of slavery ... Read More
Rating:  - Important contribution to the scholarship on slavery in colonial America
In an acute discussion about ordeals and conquests, American Slavery, American Freedom shapes a carefully framed narrative around how slavery and freedom grew together. This exploration by Historian Edmund Morgan illuminates the circumstances which made it possible for slavery and freedom to simultaneously exist. "It is a story," contends Morgan, "of how one set of Americans arrived at the American paradox, an attempt to see how slavery and freedom made their way to England's first American colony ... Read More
Rating: - Still have to read it
A salient work in colonial US history, even though some of the argument is now dated (though I would not say disproved.)
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