Philip D. Morgan is professor of history at Johns Hopkins University.
�Reminds�modern readers that the world of the 18th century is not
so distant as they sometimes imagine."New York Times Book
Review"
A monumental social history of slavery in the eighteenth-century
Chesapeake region and in the Carolina and Georgia low
country.Robert L. Paquette, "Washington Times"
Morgan's synthesis draws upon a wealth of social, political, legal,
economic, literary, religious and anthropological sources."Los
Angeles Times Book Review" (Best Nonfiction Books of 1998
issue)
The closest �examination� yet made of slave life anywhere before
the nineteenth century."New York Review of Books"
"A monumental social history of slavery in the eighteenth-century
Chesapeake region and in the Carolina and Georgia low
country.Robert L. Paquette, "Washington Times""
"Morgan's synthesis draws upon a wealth of social, political,
legal, economic, literary, religious and anthropological
sources."Los Angeles Times Book Review" (Best Nonfiction Books of
1998 issue)"
[Reminds]modern readers that the world of the 18th century is not
so distant as they sometimes imagine."New York Times Book
Review"
The closest [examination] yet made of slave life anywhere before
the nineteenth century."New York Review of Books"
The most comprehensive social history of slavery yet
written."American Historical Review"
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