| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 100.3

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Generations of Captivity A History of African-American Slaves

By Ira Berlin

(Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2003. Pp. 374. Maps, illustrations, tables, notes, index. $29.95.)


Ira Berlin skillfully braids the histories of African-American slaves into a coherent, self-contained narrative that provides general readers and specialists alike a way to conceptualize two-and-a-half centuries of history while accounting for regional differences, dramatizing change over time, and documenting the persistence of slave resistance in English, French, and Spanish North America.	1
In Generations of Captivity, Berlin compresses and updates his prize-winning study Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998), integrating his earlier account with a fresh evaluation of antebellum slavery and a brief sketch of emancipation. He investigates how antebellum-era slavery accelerated and transformed social processes that had developed over the preceding centuries. The era of the internal slave trade, which Berlin evocatively labels the "Second Middle Passage," and the rise of the cotton South marked "the period of slavery's most rapid change in mainland North America" (p. 16). Berlin demonstrates this assertion by attaching his analysis of antebellum slavery to his detailed account of slavery in colonial America.	. . .

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