Generations of captivity / Berlin, Ira

Presents a comprehensive history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its end almost three hundred years later during the Civil War.

Traces the history of slavery in the United States from the early 1600s to its demise in the wake of the Civil War, focusing on the struggle between slaves and slaveholders that defined the nature of the institution for nearly three centuries.