Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

“Ira Berlin helps us understand that many tributaries flowed into what became American slavery. After Virginia established this system of slavery, enslaved people were brought into South Carolina, Maryland, and Georgia from many different regions of Africa. Each had a different experience of what it was like to be ripped out of their homes and brought to British North America. Ira Berlin shows us that slavery was a vast and complex system.” Read more...

Best Books on the History of the American South

Edward Ayers, Historian