Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas
by Ira Berlin

Ira Berlin is Professor of History at the University of Maryland. His publications include, with Philip D. Morgan The Slaves’ Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the New World and as, chief editor, Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation. Philip D. Morgan is Associate Professor of History at Florida State University. His publications include Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry and, with Bernard Bailyn, Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire.