Slavery, Resistance, Freedom - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195384601 ISBN 13 : 9780195384604

Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 2009

Synopsis

This extraordinary collection of essays by some of America's top historians focuses on how African Americans resisted slavery and responded to freedom. Ira Berlin sets the stage by stressing the relationship between how we understand slavery and how we discuss race today. The remaining essays offer a richly textured examination of black struggles for freedom. John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger recount actual cases of runaway slaves, their motivations for escape and the strains this widespread phenomenon put on white slave-owners. Edward L. Ayers, William G. Thomas III, and Anne Sarah Rubin draw upon their remarkable Valley of the Shadow website to describe the wartime experiences of African Americans living on both borders of the Mason-Dixon line. And Eric Foner gives us a new look at how black leaders performed during the Reconstruction, revealing that they represented, for a time, the fulfillment of the American ideal that all people could aspire to political office.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gabor S. Boritt is Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.
Scott Hancock is Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at Gettysburg College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195384601
• ISBN 13: 9780195384604
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 188
• Éditeur: Boritt Gabor
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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