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Informationen zum Autor Ira Berlin was Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Klappentext Ira Berlin offers a framework for understanding slavery¿s demise in the United States. Emancipation was not an occasion but a century-long process of brutal struggle by generations of African Americans who were not naive about the price of freedom. Just as slavery was initiated and maintained by violence, undoing slavery also required violence. Zusammenfassung Ira Berlin offers a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the United States. Emancipation was not an occasion but a century-long process of brutal struggle by generations of African Americans who were not naive about the price of freedom. Just as slavery was initiated and maintained by violence, undoing slavery also required violence.
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Cover Title Copyright Contents Introduction Chapter 1. The Near-Century-Long Demise of Slavery Chapter 2. Sounding the Egalitarian Clarion Chapter 3. The Bloody Struggle Endures Coda: Free at Last Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Ira Berlin ranks as one of the greatest living historians of slavery in the United States... The Long Emancipation offers a useful reminder that abolition was not the charitable work of respectable white people, or not mainly that. Instead, the demise of slavery was made possible by the constant discomfort inflicted on middle-class white society by black activists. And like the participants in today's Black Lives Matter movement, Berlin has not forgotten that the history of slavery in the United States-especially the history of how slavery ended-is never far away when contemporary Americans debate whether their nation needs to change.
-- Edward E. Baptist New York Times Book Review
The cause of the end of slavery in the U.S. is a long, complex story that is usually, in the general reading public's mind, simplified by 'the Civil War ended it.' In this remarkably cogent, impressively thought-out, and even beautifully styled account by a university historian, we are given emphatic witness to his long-held professional conviction that 'freedom's arrival,' as he phrases it, was not due to a 'moment or a man' but because of a process that took a century to unfold.
-- Brad Hooper Booklist (starred review)
A short, fast-paced interpretive history of the transition of African Americans from chattels to free persons. [Berlin] challenges previous scholars who identify both a 'moment' and a human factor that sparked emancipation-generally either President Abraham Lincoln or the South's slaves-for initiating slavery's overthrow. Instead, Berlin takes the long view in charting emancipation's circuitous metamorphosis, from the late 18th century until the 1860s... In the end, Berlin credits black persons, north and south, for gradually but forcefully removing slavery's stain from the fabric of American life.
-- J. D. Smith Choice
Berlin lucidly illuminates the 'near-century-long' process of abolition and how, in many ways, the work of emancipation continues today.
-- Publishers Weekly
