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An Award-Winning Book

  Bancroft Prize (1999)

  Albert J. Beveridge Prize

  Wesley-Logan Prize

  South Carolina Historical Society Prize

  Elliott Rudwick Prize

  Jacques Barzun Prize

  Frederick Douglass Prize

  Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Prize

  Library of Virginia’s Non-Fiction Award

  Choice Outstanding Academic Book (1998)

“This book is without question the most comprehensive and richly documented account of African American life in the eighteenth-century plantation South...A must read for all early American historians!”

“In every respect a terriffic piece of work. Far and away the fullest and most comprehensive analysis of the two principal colonial American slave societies, it is breathtaking in its scope.”

“Scholars who have long been tantalized by Philip Morgan’s many essays on slavery can now see the bigger picture to which these pieces belong. His book is a painstaking comparative study, rich in detail and deft in its use of the secondary literature.”

“Philip Morgan’s Slave Counterpoint should prove a landmark in the study of southern slavery. Supported by an impressive command of the sources, primary and secondary, Morgan’s judicious, sometimes bold interpretations inspire confidence. And, as a bonus, this well-written book is refreshingly free of jargon and cant.”