Article: Berlin, Ira. Generations of captivity; a history of African-American slaves.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)

BERLIN, Ira. Generations of captivity; a history of African-American slaves. Harvard Univ. Press. 374p. illus. notes. index. c2003. 0-674-01624-6. $16.95. SA *

Renowned historian and author of Many Thousands Gone, Ira Berlin here expands his previous work on African American slavery in the US to complete the history of slavery from the early 17th century to the 1860s. Distinguishing carefully between the slaves of the earlier decades who lived in a "society with slaves" and those of the later plantation South who lived in a "slave society," Berlin also takes pains to describe the lives of the slaves as they differed from one geographical region to another. ...

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