The Long Emancipation : : The Demise of Slavery in the United States / / 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 b...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures ;
17 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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