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Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry

Philip D. Morgan

On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Low-country, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these two regional black cultures, exploring the differences as well as the similarities. The result is a detailed and comprehensive view of slave life in the colonial American South.

Race & EthnicityRace & Ethnicity · high confidenceRace & Ethnicity81 signalsLlm Classifier: Race & Ethnicity -> Race & EthnicityOpen Library: Race relations -> Race & EthnicityOpen Library: African Americans -> Race & EthnicityBlack History & CultureAfrica & the African DiasporaSlavery & Emancipation

Award History

3 wins · 4 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Bancroft PrizeMajor1999WinnerOfficial source
Frederick Douglass Book Prize: Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition1999Co-winnerSecondary source
American Historical Association Book Prizes: Beveridge Family Prize in American History1998WinnerOfficial source
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History1998FinalistSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Virginia60%
    • South Carolina60%
    • the Chesapeake42%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

    This suggestion did not meet the normal display threshold and is more likely to be wrong.

    Philip Morgan argues that African American life in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake and Lowcountry can be understood by comparing and contrasting their regional black cultures, revealing both differences and similarities.

    Model confidence 46%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    65 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 74%.