Long Emancipation - The Demise of Slavery in the United States

Informationen zum Autor Ira Berlin was Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Klappentext Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Long Emancipation , Ira Berlin draws upon decades of study to offer a framework for understanding slavery¿s demise in the United States. Freedom was not achieved in a moment, and emancipation was not an occasion but a near-century-long process¿a shifting but persistent struggle that involved thousands of men and women. ¿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

Product details

• Authors: Ira Berlin
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.11.2018
• EAN: 9780674986558
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98655-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Ethnic Studies, History, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, Slavery & abolition of slavery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General