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Item Details
Title:
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FREEDOM
A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF EMANCIPATION, 1861-1867 |
Volume: |
2 |
Format: |
Hardback |
List price:
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£144.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0521417422 |
ISBN 13: |
9780521417426 |
Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
26 November, 1993 |
Series: |
Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation |
Pages: |
814 |
Description: |
This volume of Freedom presents a history of the emergence of free-labour relations in different settings in the Upper South. |
Synopsis: |
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, first published in 1993, 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 upon black workers and as the number of destitute freed people 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. |
Illustrations: |
3 b/w illus. |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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