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Becoming free in the cotton South
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- Summary
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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 ...
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.
Details
- Creator
- Susan E. O'Donovan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (378 pages)
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 9780674041608, 0674041607
- OCLC
- on1248759941
- In English.
- 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
Subjects
- Cotton growing -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century -- Georgia.
- Cotton growing -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century.
- Freed persons -- History -- 19th century -- Georgia.
- Freed persons -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century.
- Plantation life -- History -- 19th century -- Georgia.
- Plantation life -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century.
- Slavery -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century -- Georgia.
- Slavery -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century.
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
- Enslaved persons -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Georgia.
- Enslaved persons -- Georgia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.