Recipient of the 1999 Bancroft Prize from Columbia University
1999 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention, Sponsored by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America
Winner of the 1999 Elliott Rudwick Prize of the Organization of American Historians
Winner of the 1999 Frederick Douglass Prize for the Best Book on Slavery Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University
Winner, Association of American Publishers 1998 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in the Category of History
Finalist, 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
Co-Winner of the Southern Historical Association's Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award for 1999
1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after almost two hundred years of African-American life in mainland North America, few slaves grew cotton, lived in the deep South, or embraced Christianity. Many Thousands Gone traces the evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early seventeenth century through the Revolution. In telling their story, Ira Berlin, a leading historian of southern and African-American life, reintegrates slaves into the history of the American working class and into the tapestry of our nation.
Laboring as field hands on tobacco and rice plantations, as skilled artisans in port cities, or soldiers along the frontier, generation after generation of African Americans struggled to create a world of their own in circumstances not of their own making. In a panoramic view that stretches from the North to the Chesapeake Bay and Carolina lowcountry to the Mississippi Valley, Many Thousands Gone reveals the diverse forms that slavery and freedom assumed before cotton was king. We witness the transformation that occurred as the first generations of creole slaves--who worked alongside their owners, free blacks, and indentured whites--gave way to the plantation generations, whose back-breaking labor was the sole engine of their society and whose physical and linguistic isolation sustained African traditions on American soil.
As the nature of the slaves' labor changed with place and time, so did the relationship between slave and master, and between slave and society. In this fresh and vivid interpretation, Berlin demonstrates that the meaning of slavery and of race itself was continually renegotiated and redefined, as the nation lurched toward political and economic independence and grappled with the Enlightenment ideals that had inspired its birth.
Ira Berlin is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Other HUP Books by Ira Berlin
Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves
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这本书的叙事结构简直是令人拍案叫绝的壮举。作者以一种近乎建筑学的严谨,搭建起一个宏大而又错综复杂的叙事迷宫。你读着读着,会发现自己并非在阅读一个线性的故事,而是在攀登一座由无数个微小观察点和深度内省构成的立体迷宫。每个章节都像是一块精心打磨的镜面,反射出不同角度的人性侧面,它们彼此呼应,却又各自独立成章。我尤其欣赏作者在处理时间线上的那种游刃有余,过去、现在和那些尚未成形的未来在字里行间自由穿梭,仿佛时间本身在这里失去了它僵硬的刻度。这种非线性的处理,使得主题的探讨得以更深层次地展开,它迫使读者放下对传统情节驱动的依赖,转而专注于内在的张力与情感的共鸣。读完合上书本时,我感到了一种智力上的满足感,如同解开了一个极其复杂的、但逻辑上完美无瑕的谜题。它需要的不仅仅是阅读,更是一种主动的参与和解读,每一次重读都会带来新的发现,这是真正伟大的文学作品才具备的特质。
评分这本书的人物群像塑造,简直是一堂大师级的表演艺术课。这里的角色们不是非黑即白的符号,他们是矛盾的集合体,是彼此拉扯的张力场。你会发现,那些表面上看似坚不可摧的权威人物,内心深处可能藏着最脆弱的秘密;而那些被边缘化的个体,却可能拥有最清醒的洞察力。最让我印象深刻的是,作者没有试图美化或合理化任何人的行为,而是将其全然暴露在一种近乎冷酷的客观光线下。你无法完全爱他们,也无法彻底恨他们,你只能目睹他们的挣扎、他们的妥协、他们偶尔闪现的伟大和更多时候的平庸。这种复杂性,使得阅读过程充满了不确定性和吸引力。每一次角色的选择都让你屏住呼吸,因为你知道,这个选择将牵动整个叙事的走向,而作者绝对不会给你一个简单或预设的答案。
评分这本书的语言风格,初读时会让人感到一种近乎疏离的冷静,但随着深入,你会察觉到那冷静之下隐藏的惊涛骇浪。作者对词汇的选择,精确到仿佛每一个词语都被置于显微镜下审视过。那种克制、那种不动声色的描摹,反而比任何激烈的抒情都更具穿透力。它不是那种用华丽辞藻堆砌起来的“美文”,而更像是冷光下打磨出的锋利工具,每一句都精准地切割开表象,直抵核心的困境。特别是当角色们陷入自我怀疑或外界压力时,作者的笔触会变得异常简洁,寥寥数语便勾勒出万语千言的复杂心境。这种文字的经济性,反而营造出一种巨大的情感余量,让读者得以在字缝之间填补自己的经验和感受。我甚至会放慢阅读速度,不是因为情节晦涩,而是因为我舍不得让那些精妙的句子匆匆溜走,它们值得被反复咀嚼,品味其内在的韵律和结构。
评分从主题的广度来看,这部作品展现了一种令人敬畏的野心。它似乎不满足于探讨单一的人类困境,而是将视野投向了存在主义的核心命题,同时又巧妙地将其根植于具体的、可感知的日常细节之中。我感觉作者在尝试回答一些宏大到似乎无法回答的问题——关于记忆的可靠性、集体历史的建构、以及个体在巨大社会机器中的微不足道性。然而,令人称奇的是,这些深刻的哲学思辨从未显得说教或脱离实际。每一个理论的探讨,都伴随着一个鲜活人物的挣扎,一个真实发生的场景的描绘。这种将“形而上”与“形而下”完美结合的能力,是极其罕见的。它成功地建立起一座桥梁,让最抽象的概念也拥有了血肉和呼吸,使得读者在思考宇宙终极问题的同时,也会为书中人物一个微小的决定而辗转反侧。
评分阅读体验带来的情感回响是极其持久而微妙的。它不像那些情节高潮迭起的作品,读完后让你情绪瞬间释放,然后逐渐淡去。这部作品带来的更像是一种缓慢渗透的感知变化。它像是你在经历了一场漫长的、气氛凝重的雨季之后,突然迎来了一个出乎意料的、平静的晴天。那种“看清了”的感觉,并非源于一个明确的结论,而是一种对世界运行规则的更深层次的理解,即使这种理解本身可能带着一丝苦涩。它强迫你重新审视自己过去习以为常的某些认知框架,并在内心深处播下了一些难以磨灭的疑问的种子。合上书后,我发现自己对日常对话、新闻报道,乃至清晨的街景,都产生了一种新的、更具警觉性的观察方式。这种影响是潜移默化的,它已经内化为观察世界的一种新滤镜,这无疑是最高级别的阅读收获。
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评分黑人史经典之作,集各家大成,史料扎实,条理清楚,就是不知道这书名该如何翻译合适
评分黑人史经典之作,集各家大成,史料扎实,条理清楚,就是不知道这书名该如何翻译合适
评分黑人史经典之作,集各家大成,史料扎实,条理清楚,就是不知道这书名该如何翻译合适
评分黑人史经典之作,集各家大成,史料扎实,条理清楚,就是不知道这书名该如何翻译合适
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