Bøker av Philip D. Morgan

Proof that the renaissance in colonial Chesapeake studies is flourishing, this collection is the first to integrate the immigrant experience of the seventeenth century with the native-born society that characterized the Chesapeake by the eighteenth century.

This study compares African American life in the two regional black cultures of Chesapeake and Lowcountry during the 18th century. It provides a view of slave life in the colonial American South by exploring the role of land and labour in shaping culture and the interior lives of the blacks.