

"If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country.' Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. 'IF IT IS POSSIBLE to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin, ' writes Edmund S. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize and the Albert J. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country.

