Slave counterpoint
Subtitle: Black culture in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
By: Phillip D. Morgan.
Contributors: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Publisher: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 703
Subjects: Slaves -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 18th century; Slaves -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century; Slaves -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Social life and customs; Slaves -- South Carolina -- Social life and customs; African Americans -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 18th century; African Americans -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century; Plantation life -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 18th century; Plantation life -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century; Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Race relations; South Carolina -- Race relations
Description: On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Low-country, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these two regional black cultures, exploring the differences as well as the similarities. The result is a detailed and comprehensive view of slave life in the colonial American South.