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100	1		_aBerlin, Ira, _d1941- _95101
245	1	0	_aGenerations of captivity : _ba history of African-American slaves / _cIra Berlin.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c2003.
300			_a374 p. : _bmaps ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPrologue : slavery and freedom -- Charter generations -- Plantation generations -- Revolutionary generations -- Migration generations -- Epilogue : freedom generations.
520			_aIn this book Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its demise nearly three hundred years later. Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when most American slaves grew cotton, resided in the deep South, and subscribed to Christianity. Here, however, Berlin offers a major reinterpretation in which slaves and their owners continually renegotiated the terms of captivity. Slavery was thus made and remade by successive generations of Africans and African Americans who lived through settlement and adaptation, plantation life, economic transformations, revolution, forced migration, war, and ultimately, emancipation. Berlin's understanding of the processes that continually transformed the lives of slaves makes Generations of captivity essential reading for anyone interested in the evolution of antebellum America. Connecting the "Charter Generation" to the development of Atlantic society in the seventeenth century, the "Plantation Generation" to the reconstruction of colonial society in the eighteenth century, the "Revolutionary Generation" to the Age of Revolutions, and the "Migration Generation" to American expansionism in the nineteenth century, Berlin integrates the history of slavery into the larger story of American life. He demonstrates how enslaved black people, by adapting to changing circumstances, prepared for the moment when they could seize liberty and declare themselves the "Freedom Generation." This epic story provides a rich understanding of the experience of African-American slaves, an experience that continues to mobilize American thought and passions today.
650		0	_aSlavery _zUnited States _xHistory. _95102
650		0	_aSlaves _zUnited States _xHistory. _95103
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aBerlin, Ira, 1941- _tGenerations of captivity. _dCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003 _w(OCoLC)606935105
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aBerlin, Ira, 1941- _tGenerations of captivity. _dCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003 _w(OCoLC)607810179
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy037/2002028142.html
856	4	2	_3Book review (H-Net) _uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f0t9-aa
856	4	1	_uhttp://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.06191
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