Slavery''s Ghost - The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation

Informationen zum Autor Walter Johnson is the Winthrop Professor of History and professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and author of Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market . Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and author of many books, including 2011 Pulitzer-Prize winner The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery . Richard Follett is a professor of American history at the University of Sussex and the author of The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820–1860 . Klappentext Written by three prominent historians of the period, Slavery's Ghost forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America. Zusammenfassung Written by three prominent historians of the period! Slavery's Ghost forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past! the depth of racial prejudice! and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America.

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• Authors: Richard Follett, Richard (University of Sussex) Follett, Richard Foner Follett, Richard J. Follett, Follett Richard, Eric Foner, Eric (Columbia University) Foner, Foner Eric, Johnson Johnson, Walter Johnson, Walter (Harvard University) Johnson, Walter (Harvard University) Foner Johnson, Walter/ Foner Johnson
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.12.2011
• EAN: 9781421402352
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-0235-2
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 6 mm
• Series: The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series; Marcus Cunliffe Lectures; The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series; Marcus Cunliffe Lecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General