Black Southerners, 1619-1869

Expertly traces the evolutionary changes within the peculiar institution and the common historical experience shared by whites and blacks.

~Choice

A splendid example of a schollarly task too seldom undertaken, Black Southerners should be of great value to all students of southern history.

~Journal of Southern History

Boles sidesteps historiographic feuds and posturing, offering instead a concise, clear-eyed view of black life and labor in the American South and of the rise of a diverse, durable black community in the grip of white power.

~Historian

A clear, balanced, and senstivei synthesis of the vast literature of Anglo-American and Southern history.

~Virginia Quarterly Review