| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.2

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Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. By Ira Berlin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. 374p. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $16.95.)

This reprise and expansion of Ira Berlin's paradigmatic study, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998), uses much of the theoretical structure of the latter, but with important revisions. Present again are the divisions of the history of early black life by time and place and through study of generations. In addition to Berlin's famous configurations of charter, plantation, and revolutionary generations, the reader learns of a divided migration cohort and has a brief look into the freedom generations of the Civil War period. The prologue reminds readers of Berlin's division of early America into "societies with slaves," in which servitude was one of several labor options, and "slave societies," in which chattel bondage was the primary and often only organization of work. This new study allows Berlin to make a close reading of the explosive scholarship about black life and slavery in the past five or so years.

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