The Long Emancipation : : The Demise of Slavery in the United States / / Ira Berlin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Berlin, Ira,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures ; 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. The Near- Century- Long 12 Demise of Slavery --; 2. Sounding the Egalitarian Clarion --; 3.The Bloody Struggle Endures --; Coda: Free at Last --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674088993; 9783110638721; 9783110439687; 9783110438741; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674088993
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ira Berlin.

Ira Berlin offers a framework for understanding slavery's demise in the United States. Emancipation was not an occasion but a century-long process of brutal struggle by generations of African Americans who were not naive about the price of freedom. Just as slavery was initiated and maintained by violence, undoing slavery also required violence.