| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South. By Marie Jenkins Schwartz. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. xii, 272 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-674-00162-1.)

Well before the nineteenth century, most North American slaves were enslaved at birth, by birth to a slave mother. That elemental fact had profoundly important consequences for individual slaves, for the institution of slavery, and for the United States. Millions of babies born to slave women made American slavery distinctively homegrown. . . .

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