Ira Berlin was Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Over the past 20 years, Berlin's work has redefined how scholars approach the study of slavery and freedom in America. His scholarship on slavery and race...and his complete command of the enormous literature on slavery now come together to inform this compelling history. Here Berlin carefully delineates the ways slavery varied according to time and place and compare slavery in the Americas, mapping the migrations of peoples from Africa to America and then across the South in its various incarnations, discovering within slave life the roots of African American religions, family, folkways, foodways, crafts, and more. His book reminds us that the generations after emancipation still resonated with the culture of those once held in captivity. Essential.

• Prologue: Slavery and Freedom 1. Charter Generations 2. Plantation Generations 3. Revolutionary Generations 4. Migration Generations Epilogue: Freedom Generations Tables Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index

Ira Berlin was Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Over the past 20 years, Berlin's work has redefined how scholars approach the study of slavery and freedom in America. His scholarship on slavery and race...and his complete command of the enormous literature on slavery now come together to inform this compelling history. Here Berlin carefully delineates the ways slavery varied according to time and place and compare slavery in the Americas, mapping the migrations of peoples from Africa to America and then across the South in its various incarnations, discovering within slave life the roots of African American religions, family, folkways, foodways, crafts, and more. His book reminds us that the generations after emancipation still resonated with the culture of those once held in captivity. Essential.

• Prologue: Slavery and Freedom 1. Charter Generations 2. Plantation Generations 3. Revolutionary Generations 4. Migration Generations Epilogue: Freedom Generations Tables Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index

Ira Berlin was Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Over the past 20 years, Berlin's work has redefined how scholars approach the study of slavery and freedom in America. His scholarship on slavery and race...and his complete command of the enormous literature on slavery now come together to inform this compelling history. Here Berlin carefully delineates the ways slavery varied according to time and place and compare slavery in the Americas, mapping the migrations of peoples from Africa to America and then across the South in its various incarnations, discovering within slave life the roots of African American religions, family, folkways, foodways, crafts, and more. His book reminds us that the generations after emancipation still resonated with the culture of those once held in captivity. Essential.

• Prologue: Slavery and Freedom 1. Charter Generations 2. Plantation Generations 3. Revolutionary Generations 4. Migration Generations Epilogue: Freedom Generations Tables Abbreviations Notes Acknowledgments Index