Adam Rothman

This book tells the tragic story of the expansion of slavery in the new United States. In the wake of the American Revolution, slavery gradually disappeared from the northern states and the importation of captive Africans was prohibited. Yet, at the same time, the country's slave poulation grew, new plantation crops appeared, and several new slave states joinedthe Union. Adam Rothman explores how slavery flourished in a new nation dedicated to the principle of equality among free men, and revealst he enormous consequences of U.S. expansion into the region that became the Deep South.

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Steven Hahn

"In this magisterial...book...Steven Hahn gives us the history of the South from the eve of the Civil War through the dawn of the Great Migration from the perspective of rural blacks. It is an awesome and audacious undertaking. Not since W. E. B. DuBois'monumental Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880(1935) has a historian ventured to structure a political history of the entire post-emancipation South around black politics."
‹Jane Dailey, Chicago Tribune

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Ira Berlin

"Ira BerlinŠcomes closer than any other contemporary historian to giving us an opportunity‹in a single, readable volume‹to come to grips with a subject very few of us wish to think about but which all of us surely need to consider: how millions of white Americans over the course of three centuries came to hold millions of black Americans in chattel bondage while managing to lsoe nary a moment's sleep over their complicity in this monstrous enterprise."
‹Charles B. Dew, New York Times Book Review

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