Becoming Free in the Cotton South / / Susan Eva O'Donovan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: O'Donovan, Susan Eva,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Doing the Master’s Bidding --; 2. Civil War in the Land of Goshen --; 3. Finding Freedom’s Edges --; 4. Black Women and the Domestication of Free Labor --; 5. To Make a Laborers’ State --; Coda: That Strange Land of Shadows --; Notes --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674041608; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674041608
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Susan Eva O'Donovan.

This book challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or the ending of the story, as most histories do, O'Donovan explores the perilous transition between these two conditions, offering a unique vision of both the enormous changes and the profound continuities in black life before and after the Civil War.