American Slavery, American Freedom

by MORGAN,EDMUND S.

• ISBN13: 9780393324945
• ISBN10: 039332494X
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-10-17
• Publisher: W W NORTON

Summary

"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.

Table of Contents

MAP: Virginia in the Seventeenth Century	ii
Acknowledgments	vii
Preface to the second edition	ix
BOOK I: THE PROMISED LAND	1	(130)
1. DREAMS OF LIBERATION	3	(22)
2. THE LOST COLONY	25	(19)
3. IDLE INDIAN AND LAZY ENGLISHMAN	44	(27)
4. THE JAMESTOWN FIASCO	71	(21)
5. THE PERSISTENT VISION	92	(16)
6. BOOM	108	(23)
BOOK II: A NEW DEAL	131	(82)
7. SETTLING DOWN	133	(25)
8. LIVING WITH DEATH	158	(22)
9. THE TROUBLE WITH TOBACCO	180	(16)
10. A GOLDEN FLEECING	196	(17)
BOOK III: THE VOLATILE SOCIETY	213	(80)
11. THE LOSERS	215	(20)
12. DISCONTENT	235	(15)
13. REBELLION	250	(21)
14. STATUS QUO	271	(22)
BOOK IV: SLAVERY AND FREEDOM	293	(96)
15. TOWARD SLAVERY	295	(21)
16. TOWARD RACISM	316	(22)
17. TOWARD POPULISM	338	(25)
18. TOWARD THE REPUBLIC	363	(26)
Footnote Abbreviations	389	(6)
APPENDIX: Population Growth in Seventeenth-Century Virginia	395	(38)
A Note on the Sources	433	(10)
Index	443