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1	Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America more books like this by Ira Berlin add to wishlist A major historical study of two centuries of African-American experience in America during slavery. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $8.00! new only from $21.99! \| first editions
2	Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves more books like this by Ira Berlin add to wishlist Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the 17th century to its fiery demise nearly 300 years later. Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one fixed in the mid-19th century when most American slaves grew cotton, resided in the deep South and subscribed to ... see all copies from $2.25! new only from $21.28! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South more books like this by Ira Berlin add to wishlist A vivid and moving history of the quarter of a million free blacks who lived in the South before the civil war. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.82! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War more books like this by Joseph P Reidy (Editor), Leslie S Rowland (Editor), Ira Berlin (Editor) add to wishlist When nearly 200,000 black men, most of them former slaves, entered the Union army and navy, they transformed the Civil War into a struggle for liberty and changed the course of American history. Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of those men in their own words and the words of other eyewitnesses. These moving letters, affidavits, and memorials - ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
5	Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War more books like this by Ira Berlin, Leslie S Rowland, Joseph P Reidy add to wishlist The three essays in this volume present an introduction and history of the emancipation of the slaves during the Civil War. The first essay traces the destruction of slavery by discussing the shift from a war for the Union to a war against slavery. The slaves are shown to have shaped the destiny of the nation through their determination to place ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $14.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Many Thousands Gone P more books like this by Ira Berlin add to wishlist A major historical study of two centuries of African-American experience in America during slavery. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $10.49! new only from $24.50! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation more books like this by Ira Berlin (Editor), Marc Favreau (Editor), Steven F Miller (Editor) add to wishlist The extraordinary interviews from the book component of "Remembering Slavery" are now published in an affordable paperback edition. "Moving recollections fill a void in the slavery literature. . . . Chilling."--"The Washington Post Book World." 40 photos. see all copies from $9.98! new only from $21.76! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Slavery in New York: The African American Experience more books like this by IRA Berlin (Editor), Leslie Harris (Editor) add to wishlist SLAVERY IN NEW YORK is the catalog for the 2005 exhibition of the same name that was organized by the New-York Historical Society and which reveals a little-known chapter of America's past. Scholarly essays and a wealth of visual material describe New York's thriving slave trade, which began in the 1600s under the rule of the Dutch, and extended ... see all copies from $5.75! new only from $15.77! \| SVS
9	Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas more books like this by Philip D Morgan (Editor), IRA Berlin (Editor) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.22! new only from $21.06! \| SVS
10	Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era more books like this by Leslie S Rowland (Editor), IRA Berlin (Editor), Hawkins Wilson (Introduction by) add to wishlist "Families and Freedom" tells the story of the remaking of the African American family during the Civil War era. The editors draw upon the letters and testimony of freed slaves. Former slaves recount their experiences from the elation of finding lost family members to the sadness of discovering that long-lost spouses had remarried. The transition ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation more books like this by Marc Favreau (Editor), Steven F Miller (Editor), IRA Berlin (Editor) add to wishlist The extraordinary interviews from the book component of "Remembering Slavery" are now published in an affordable paperback edition. "Moving recollections fill a void in the slavery literature. . . . Chilling."--"The Washington Post Book World." 40 photos. see all copies from $2.60! new only from $8.10! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Families & Freedom more books like this by Ira Berlin, Leslie S Rowland (Editor) add to wishlist "Families and Freedom" tells the story of the remaking of the African American family during the Civil War era. The editors draw upon the letters and testimony of freed slaves. Former slaves recount their experiences from the elation of finding lost family members to the sadness of discovering that long-lost spouses had remarried. The transition ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.98! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Blacks in Bondage: Letters of American Slaves more books like this by Robert S Starrobin, Robert S Starobin (Designer), Ira Berlin (Designer) add to wishlist A collection of documents by black American slaves, written while enslaved or shortly after escape. The words recorded here express complexity and diversity of thought and feeling about slavery and being black, and offer glimpses into the interior lives of a number of American slaves. see all copies from $2.87! new only from $28.43!
14	Slavery & Freedom more books like this by IRA Berlin, Professor Ronald Hoffman add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.95!
15	Power & Culture: Essy by Herbert G Gutman, Ira Berlin (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.90! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Slaves' Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas more books like this by Ira Berlin, Berlin Ira add to wishlist Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, manufacturing goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds and bequeathing property to their descendants. The editors of this volume contend that the legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the slaves' economy. see all copies from $48.56! new only from $65.05!
17 view cover	Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War more books like this by Steven F Miller (Contributions by), Barbara Jeanne Fields (Editor), Ira Berlin (Editor) add to wishlist Available for the first time in an inexpensive paperback edition--letters, personal testimonies, transcripts, and records depicting the drama of Emancipation in the midst of the nation's bloodiest conflict. Drawn from the award-winning Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.00! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Slavery and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution more books like this by IRA Berlin add to wishlist see all copies from $9.85! new only from $75.00!
19	Remembering Slavery: Teaching Supplement by Ira Berlin add to wishlist see all copies from $4.75! first editions
20	The Black military experience more books like this by Ira Berlin, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland add to wishlist A collection of first-hand accounts drawn from the extensive records of the National Archives. It explains how black military service helped to destroy slavery; it is a social history of black soldiers; it explains how soldiering shaped the life of black people during and after the war. see all copies from $191.28! first editions
21	American Slavery in History and Memory by Ira Berlin add to wishlist see all copies from $14.95!
22 view cover	Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves more books like this by Ira Berlin add to wishlist A master historian traces African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the 17th century to its fiery demise nearly 300 years later, providing a rich understanding of the slaves' experience that continues to mobilize American thought and passions today. see all copies from $18.00! first editions

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