So central was labour in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for granted, with little attention given to the type of work that slaves did and the circumstances surrounding it. Cultivation and Culture brings together essays by leading scholars of slavery - historians, anthropologists and sociologists - to explore when, where and how slaves laboured in growing the New World's great staples and how this work shaped the institution of slavery and the lives of African-American slaves.
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So central was labour in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for granted, with little attention given to the type of work that slaves did and the circumstances surrounding it. Cultivation and Culture brings together essays by leading scholars of slavery - historians, anthropologists and sociologists - to explore when, where and how slaves laboured in growing the New World's great staples and how this work shaped the institution of slavery and the lives of African-American slaves.
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Very Good. Size: 6x1x9; [Personal copy of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan (Editor). ] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. viii, 388 p., 24 cm. Selected from a conference on comparative slavery, these essays explore when, where and how slaves labored in growing the New World's staples and how this work shaped the institution of slavery and the lives of African-American slaves. From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998). Ira Berlin was the influential historian and distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland (UMD) known for his scholarship on the history of slavery in early America.
