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ISBN 10: 0393347517
ISBN 13: 9780393347517
Author: Edmund Morgan
“Thoughtful, suggestive and highly readable.”—New York Times Book Review In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. George Washington led the Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them in declaring independence. Virginians drafted not only the Declaration but also the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; they were elected to the presidency of the United States under that Constitution for thirty-two of the first thirty-six years of its existence. They were all slaveholders. In the new preface Edmund S. Morgan writes: “Human relations among us still suffer from the former enslavement of a large portion of our predecessors. The freedom of the free, the growth of freedom experienced in the American Revolution depended more than we like to admit on the enslavement of more than 20 percent of us at that time. How republican freedom came to be supported, at least in large part, by its opposite, slavery, is the subject of this book. American Slavery, American Freedom is a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the keys to this central paradox, “the marriage of slavery and freedom,” in the people and the politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the Revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country.
American Slavery American Freedom 1st Table of contents:
Book I: The Promised Land
1. Dreams of Liberation
2. The Lost Colony
3. Idle Indian and Lazy Englishman
4. The Jamestown Fiasco
5. The Persistent Vision
6. Boom
Book II: A New Deal
7. Settling Down
8. Living with Death
9. The Trouble with Tobacco
10. A Golden Fleecing
Book III: The Volatile Society
11. The Losers
12. Discontent
13. Rebellion
14. Status Quo
Book IV: Slavery and Freedom
15. Toward Slavery
16. Toward Racism
17. Toward Populism
18. Toward the Republic
Footnote Abbreviations
Appendix: Population Growth in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
A Note on the Sources
Index
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