Describes the many generations of the Afro-American families on the Good Hope Plantation in South Carolina.

MANY PASTS: Readings in American Social History, 1600-1876, Volume I, edited by Herbert G. Gutman and Gregory S. Kealey, consists of four broad sections: The Colonial World, 1600-1763; Independence and the New Nation, 1763-1815; The Beginnings of a New Society, 1815-1843; The New Society and the Changing Old Society, 1843-1876. Among the contributors to Volume I: Edmund S. Morgan, Nancy Oestreich Lurie, Richard B. Morris, Pauline Maier, Sidney W. Mintz, Allan Kulikoff, San Bass Warner, Alfred Young, Gerald Mullin, Norman Ware, Edward Pessen, Caroline Ware, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, John F. C. Harrison, Alice H. Bauer, Charles Hirschfeld, Avery Craven, Gunter Barth, David Montgomery, W. E. B. Dubois, Joel Williamson. This collection of readings focuses on these objectives: to acquaint the reader with historians whose writings in American social history directly or indirectly explore critical intersections of culture and society; to supplement in basic ways the traditional political emphasis in American history courses; to illustrate how different methods of historical inquiry have been used by historians to spotlight important but often neglected aspects of the American past. It also focuses on ALL the ethnic and racial groups in America as well as on the varied social classes. The editors emphasize the structure of American Society, how it has changed, and how those changes were experienced and interpreted by Americans of varied social classes.