Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All - Couverture rigide

Roediger, David R

 
9781781686096: Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All

Synopsis

How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, react to their newly won freedoms? Building on, criticizing and extending previous historical accounts of the Reconstruction, David Roediger's radical new history finds fresh sources and texts that redefine the idea of freedom after the jubilee. Reinstating ex-slaves' own ""freedom dreams"" in constructing these histories, Roediger creates a masterful account of the emancipation, and its ramifications on a whole host of day-to-day concerns for whites and black alike, such as property relations, labor, and gender roles.

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À propos de l?auteur

David Roediger is Kendrick Babcock Chair of History at the University of Illinois. Among his books are Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (with Philip S. Foner), How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon, and The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.

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9781784780258: Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1784780251 ISBN 13 :  9781784780258
Editeur : Verso Books, 2015
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