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Ira Berlin’s *Many Thousands Gone* charts the history of African‑American life in mainland North America from the early seventeenth century to the Revolutionary era. Using a detailed social‑historical lens, Berlin shows how enslaved people’s labor varied across regions and times, and how their relationships to masters and to society shifted alongside the nation’s growing political and economic independence. By integrating slavery into the broader narrative of the American working class, Berlin demonstrates that the meanings of slavery and race were continuously negotiated and redefined as the United States emerged from Enlightenment ideals and colonial roots.
First publish date: 1998
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Ira Berlin
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