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Title: Generations of Captivity : A History of African-American Slaves by Ira Berlin ISBN: 0-674-01061-2 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: This book is a very disappointing work from the usually excellent historian Ira Berlin. This book is essentially an abridged (and slightly revised) version of Many Thousands Gone with the addition of a short section on the Antebellum period of black life in the United States. It is disappointing because the addition of the later period coupled with the clear limits that were placed on its lenght lead to a book that is very watered down to the point where the text dwells in generalities and is just not very interesting.
I would say that if you are at all knowledgeable about slavery in America skip this book and look at his other book Many Thousands Gone. If you are not knowledgeable, this book can be a useful introduction to the subject and a spring board to more in depth studies.
Rating: 3
Summary: Informative but too general
Comment: This review is written by someone who has just became acquainted with many of the details of the enslavement of [African][-][Americans] on the land that would eventually become the United States of America. "Generations of Captivity" introduced me to this long and tragic history. Written in a simple narrative format, helpfully broken up into five generations of African American slavery--the Charter [~1600-1720], Plantation [~1720-1776], Revolutionary [1776-1812], Migration [1812-1861] and Freedom generations--as well as geographical regions, Berlin's narrative of this ugly spectacle in American history is easy to follow and extremely informative to newcomers to the subject like myself. That being said, the book appears to be an abridged version of his previous book, "Many Thousands Gone." There are very few direct quotes from primary sources, and the statistics provided during the narrative are general at best (though a table of statistics is provided in an appendix). While Berlin's book introduced me to many of the specificities of slavery in the United States, I got the nagging feeling that, while I was reading this, something was missing. I'm probably being too critical, as each generation he writes about has most likely been the subject of numerous book-length studies in and of themselves, and it is Berlin's job here to condense all of them into a single narrative. This book is a very good introduction to the topic and I feel I have some more insight into it now. But those who have spent plenty of time with this subject material might want to search elsewhere.
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Title: Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin ISBN: 0674002113 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 04 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands by James F. Brooks ISBN: 0807853828 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1963 (The Library of America, 137-138) by David J. Garrow, Bill Kovach, Carol Polsgrove, Of America Library ISBN: 1931082286 Publisher: Library of America Pub. Date: 13 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek ISBN: 0374175268 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 15 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Should America Pay? : Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations by Raymond Winbush ISBN: 0060083107 Publisher: Amistad Press Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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