African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins Through the American Revolution

by Donald R. Wright

Book Overview

Black slavery existed in America for over two centuries. From the middle of the 17th to the end of the 18th century the plantations and smaller farms of the Chesapeake and the Carolina and Georgia low country constituted the heart of American slavery. It was only in the last 50 years of slavery's existence that the institution moved into the lands of the Deep South and switched from emphasis on tobacco or rice production to cotton. Yet the focus of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882958321
• ISBN13: 9780882958323
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Harlan Davidson
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Grade Range: Grades 11 to 12