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Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath - Couverture rigide

Nash, Gary B.; Soderlund, Jean R.

 
9780195045833: Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0195045831 ISBN 13 : 9780195045833
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 1991

Synopsis

This book shows how slavery ended within a single generation at the end of the eighteenth century in the important colony/state of Pennsylvania. The authors have made a study of the slaveholders themselves in order to understand the process by which most slaves were given freedom without legislative or judicial efforts and without compensation to their masters. The book also traces a number of individual cases which show the varying processes by which slaves brought pressure for emancipation. This book represents a major milestone in our understanding of slavery and how it was effectively abolished.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book shows how slavery ended within a single generation at the end of the eighteenth century in the important colony/state of Pennsylvania. The authors have made a study of the slaveholders themselves in order to understand the process by which most slaves were given freedom without legislative or judicial efforts and without compensation to their masters. The book also traces a number of individual cases which show the varying processes by which slaves brought pressure for emancipation. This book represents a major milestone in our understanding of slavery and how it was effectively abolished.

Revue de presse

Deserving of a prominent place beside the best of the southern volumes. Freedom By Degrees, based on a motherlode of documentation including probate and manumission records, abolitionist society papers, and runaway slave literature, masterfully delineates the forces that brought aout the gradual death of slavery in Pennsylvania and the subsequent transition to a semi-free black labor system....Cogent and sophisticated analysis. (Georgia Historical Quarterly)

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195045831
ISBN 13 
9780195045833
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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