Ebook: American slavery, American freedom: the ordeal of colonial Virginia

BOOK I: THE PROMISED LAND: Dreams of liberation ; The lost colony ; Idle Indian and lazy Englishman ; The Jamestown fiasco ; The persistent vision ; Boom -- BOOK II: A NEW DEAL: Settling down ; Living with death ; The trouble with tobacco ; A golden fleecing -- BOOK III: The volatile society: The losers ; Discontent ; Rebellion ; Status quo -- BOOK IV: SLAVERY AND FREEDOM: Toward slavery ; Toward racism ; Toward populism ; Toward the republic -- Appendix: Population growth in Seventeenth-Century Virginia.;The men who came together to found the independent United States either held slaves or were willing to join hands with those who did. George Washington, hero of the Revolution, was the master of several hundred slaves. Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, owned more than 200 men, women, and children while eloquently defending the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In this classic work, originally published in 1976, through a meticulous history of Virginia from its earliest settlement through the seventeenth century boom in tobacco, the gradual replacement of servitude with slavery, and the rise of republican ideology, historian Morgan reveals the deep and interlocking relationship between these seemingly contradictory ideas.--From publisher description.