About the Author

Philip D. Morgan is professor of history at Johns Hopkins University.

Reviews

�Reminds�modern readers that the world of the 18th century is not so distant as they sometimes imagine."New York Times Book Review"

A monumental social history of slavery in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake region and in the Carolina and Georgia low country.Robert L. Paquette, "Washington Times"

Morgan's synthesis draws upon a wealth of social, political, legal, economic, literary, religious and anthropological sources."Los Angeles Times Book Review" (Best Nonfiction Books of 1998 issue)

The closest �examination� yet made of slave life anywhere before the nineteenth century."New York Review of Books"

"A monumental social history of slavery in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake region and in the Carolina and Georgia low country.Robert L. Paquette, "Washington Times""

"Morgan's synthesis draws upon a wealth of social, political, legal, economic, literary, religious and anthropological sources."Los Angeles Times Book Review" (Best Nonfiction Books of 1998 issue)"

[Reminds]modern readers that the world of the 18th century is not so distant as they sometimes imagine."New York Times Book Review"

The closest [examination] yet made of slave life anywhere before the nineteenth century."New York Review of Books"

The most comprehensive social history of slavery yet written."American Historical Review"