Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas

by Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan

Book Overview

So central was labor in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for granted, with little attention given to the type of work that slaves did and the circumstances surrounding it. Cultivation and Culture brings together leading scholars of slavery- historians, anthropologists, and sociologists- to explore when, where, and how slaves labored in growing the New World's great staples and how this work shaped the institution of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813914248
• ISBN13: 9780813914244
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher