| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Canada and the United States

Ira Berlin. Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. 374. $29.95

In this study, Ira Berlin fulfills his radical revision of the static and time-frozen views of American slavery that tended to dominate scholarship in the generation following World War II. Berlin's new book builds bridges between his masterly and prize-winning Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998), which portrays slavery largely from the slaves' point of view, and Berlin's earlier leadership in reconstructing African Americans' central role in the Civil War and in helping to define the meaning of their own emancipation. Inevitably, this means some repetition of the themes, arguments, and examples of Many Thousands Gone, although Berlin has drawn impressively on the vast flood of recent scholarship. What especially distinguishes Berlin's present approach is its geographic breadth (including the North, Florida, and the Old Southwest), emphasis on the markedly different experiences of five "generations" of African-Americans, and focus on slaves' agency, initiative, and skill at constant negotiation.

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