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American slavery, American freedom : the ordeal of colonial Virginia

Author: Edmund S Morgan
Publisher: New York : Norton, [1975]
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Edmund S Morgan
ISBN: 039305554X 9780393055542 0393091562 9780393091564
OCLC Number: 1502335
Awards: American Historical Association Albert A. Beveridge Award, 1976.
Description: x, 454 p. : 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.
Responsibility: Edmund S. Morgan.

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