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American Slavery, American Freedom

Edmund S. Morgan

How did a society that proclaimed liberty and equality come to hold people as slaves, and what does that gap say about American freedom?

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Author
Edmund S. Morgan

Why read it

  • You will see how slavery and freedom came to be tied together in early Virginia
  • You will learn how early Virginia moved step by step toward slavery and then toward racism, rather than starting there
  • You will be able to judge how a gap between ideals and practice can last for generations

Who it is for

  • A reader puzzled by how a land of liberty kept slavery
  • A teacher of American history who wants the roots
  • Anyone tracing how race and class were built into early America

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Book I
  3. THE PROMISED LAND
  4. DREAMS OF LIBERATION
  5. THE LOST COLONY
  6. IDLE INDIAN AND LAZY ENGLISHMAN
  7. THE JAMESTOWN FIASCO
  8. THE PERSISTENT VISION
  9. BOOM
  10. Book II
  11. A NEW DEAL
  12. SETTLING DOWN
  13. LIVING WITH DEATH
  14. THE TROUBLE WITH TOBACCO
  15. A GOLDEN FLEECING
  16. Book III
  17. THE VOLATILE SOCIETY
  18. THE LOSERS
  19. DISCONTENT
  20. REBELLION
  21. STATUS QUO
  22. Book IV
  23. SLAVERY AND FREEDOM
  24. TOWARD SLAVERY
  25. TOWARD RACISM
  26. TOWARD POPULISM
  27. TOWARD THE REPUBLIC
  28. Footnote Abbreviations
  29. APPENDIX
  30. Population Growth in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
  31. A Note on the Sources

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