Traces the development of Black society from the 1600s through the 1800s, describing the social conditions of both slaves and free Blacks

An award-winning historian's sweeping new interpretation of the African American experience. In this masterful account, Ira Berlin, one of the nation's most distinguished ...

Describes the lives and socio-cultural patterns of free blacks in the antebellum South and their interaction with whites as determined largely by white attitudes, institutions ...

Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade ...

Presenting both an inspiring and a troubling perspective on American democracy, this 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner is the epic story of how African Americans, in the six decades ...

"A Best Book of the Year" --"Library Journal" and "Booklist" Using excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with ...

Contains primary source material.

"Thoughtful, suggestive and highly readable."--New York Times Book Review

Employs quantitative analyses to correct long-standing historical beliefs concerning the inefficiency of the slave system, the dispersion of Black families, and the material ...

Written and oral testimony to the conditions and experiences of slavery reveal the everyday lives and extraordinary culture of black slaves