Slave counterpoint : Black culture in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
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Morgan, Philip D., 1949-
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Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Published
Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c1998.
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xxiv, 703 pages : ill. ; 25 cm
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Community College of Aurora - CentreTech - BOOKS
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African Americans -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 18th century.
African Americans -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century.
Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Race relations.
Plantation life -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 18th century.
Plantation life -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century.
Slaves -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 18th century.
Slaves -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Social life and customs.
Slaves -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century.
Slaves -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs.
South Carolina -- Race relations.
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History.
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Historia da america - politica e sociedade (escravidao)
História dos estados unidos.

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Published
Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c1998.
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Book
Language
English

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"On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these two regional Black cultures, exploring the differences as well as the similarities. The result is a detailed and comprehensive view of slave life in the colonial American South."
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"Morgan explores the role of land and labor in shaping culture, the everyday contacts of masters and slaves that defined the possibilities and limitations of cultural exchange, and finally the interior life of Blacks--their social relations, their family and kin ties, and the major symbolic dimensions of life: language, play, and religion. He provides a balanced appreciation for the oppressiveness of bondage and for the ability of slaves to shape their lives, showing that, whatever the constraints, slaves contributed to the making of their history. Victims of a brutal, dehumanizing system, slaves nonetheless strove to create order to their lives, to preserve their humanity, to achieve dignity, and to sustain dreams of a better future." -- The publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Morgan, P. D. (1998). Slave counterpoint: Black culture in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake and Lowcountry . Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Morgan, Philip D., 1949-. 1998. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-century Chesapeake and Lowcountry. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Morgan, Philip D., 1949-. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-century Chesapeake and Lowcountry Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Morgan, Philip D. Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-century Chesapeake and Lowcountry Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

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