Becoming Free in the Cotton South / / 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 enormou...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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