books.google.ca - Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later.Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when most American...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Generations_of_captivity.html?id=WrzmkXfcc3wC&q=planter+class&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareGenerations of captivity