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Many Thousands Gone (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

In 1980, Ira Berlin published in the American Historical Review an important and frequently cited essay on the history of North American slavery, “Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America.” In it, he argued that in their attempts to expose the nature of African American slavery, historians had frequently simplified their vision to focus on slavery as it was known in the decades before the Civil War, ignoring the fact that slavery had changed over time and space during its centuries of existence. That article ends with a call...

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