Freedom: Volume 1, Series 1: The Destruction of Slavery
Title | Freedom: Volume 1, Series 1: The Destruction of Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Ira Berlin |
Publisher | CUP Archive |
Total Pages | 906 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521229791 |
Contains primary source material.
Freedom
Title | Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 968 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9780521132138 |
Freedom
Title | Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Slaves |
ISBN | 9780521132145 |
This volume presents a documentary record of the transformation of the Civil War into a war against slavery, & the slaves' role in their own emancipation.
Land and Labor, 1865
Title | Land and Labor, 1865 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1168 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | African Americans |
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This book examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War. Letters and testimony by the participants--former slaves, former slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, and others-reveal the connection between developments in workplaces across the South and an intensifying political contest over the meaning of freedom and the terms of national reunification. Essays by the editors place the documents in interpretive context and illuminate the major themes.
Freedom's Crescent
Title | Freedom's Crescent PDF eBook |
Author | John C. Rodrigue |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 533 |
Release | 2023-01-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108424090 |
A sweeping history of the Lower Mississippi Valley and its central role in abolishing slavery in the American South.
Freedom: Volume 2, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South
Title | Freedom: Volume 2, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South PDF eBook |
Author | Ira Berlin |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1993-11-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521417426 |
As slavery collapsed during the American Civil War, former slaves struggled to secure their liberty, reconstitute their families, and create the institutions befitting a free people. This volume of Freedom presents a documentary history of the emergence of free-labor relations in different settings in the Upper South. At first, most federal officials hoped to mobilize former slaves without either transforming the conflict into a war of liberation or assuming responsibility for the young, the old, or others not suitable for military employment. But as the Union army came to depend on black workers and as the number of destitute freedpeople mounted, authorities at all levels grappled with intertwined questions of freedom, labor and welfare. Meanwhile, the former slaves pursued their own objectives, working within the constraints imposed by the war and Union occupation to fashion new lives as free people. The Civil War sealed the fate of slavery only to open a contest over the meaning of freedom. This volume of Freedom documents an important chapter in that contest.
The Long Emancipation
Title | The Long Emancipation PDF eBook |
Author | Ira Berlin |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 2015-09-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674286081 |
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.