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Loading... American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginiaby Edmund S. Morgan
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This award-winning book, first published in 1975, is a detailed account of the “ordeal of colonial Virginia." Morgan traces Virginia's history from the failed colonization attempts of Sir Walter Raleigh and others in the late 16th century to the calamity-filled founding of Jamestown in the early 17th century, to the firm establishment of slavery by the third quarter of that century, and finally, to the slaveholding Patriots on the eve of the American Revolution. The author’s thesis is that the Virginia colonists’ quest for freedom ironically provided the fertile soil in which slavery could take root and thrive. He painstakingly presents the evidence to prove how this could be. The book is fairly “academic” and heavily footnoted, and occasionally devotes too much space to historical minutiae for my taste. It is, however, a fascinating account any student of early American history and the history of American slavery should read. Must read for Old South and Colonial Graduate history classes 0.035 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 039332494X, Paperback)"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.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:01 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Morgan writes fantastic history. His thematic organization and seamless integration of source material into the text are eminently readable. None of the book seems dated, although it was written in the 70s. (