Becoming Free in the Cotton South

Informationen zum Autor Susan O'Donovan is Associate Professor of History at the University of Memphis Klappentext This book challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or end of the story, O¿Donovan explores the perilous transition between these two conditions, offering a unique vision of the enormous changes and the profound continuities in black life before and after the Civil War. Zusammenfassung This book challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or end of the story, O’Donovan explores the perilous transition between these two conditions, offering a unique vision of the enormous changes and the profound continuities in black life before and after the Civil War.

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• Authors: &apos, Susan Eva donovan, O&apos, Susan Eva Odonovan, Susan Eva O'Donovan, Susan Eva O''donovan, O'Donovan Susan Eva
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.04.2010
• EAN: 9780674045651
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04565-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Specific wars and campaigns, c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars