Families and Freedom - A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era

Informationen zum Autor Ira Berlin and Leslie S. Rowland, editors of Free at Last (The New Press), teach history at the University of Maryland. They are former and present directors, respectively, of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project, which is compiling a multivolume documentary history of the transition from slavery to freedom. Klappentext Through the dramatic and moving letters and testimony of freed slaves, "Families and Freedom" tells the story of the remaking of the black family during the tumultuous years of the Civil War era. By the editors of the award-winning "Free at Last". 36 illustrations. Zusammenfassung Through the letters and testimony of freed slaves, this work tells the story of the making of the black family during the tumultuous era of the American Civil War. Former slaves, free blacks and their contemporaries recount their experiences.

Product details

• Authors: IRA Berlin, Ira Rowland Berlin
• Assisted by: IRA Berlin (Editor), Leslie S. Rowland (Editor), Rowland Leslie S. (Editor)
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1998
• EAN: 9781565844407
• ISBN: 978-1-56584-440-7
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; 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, Biography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), HISTORY / Military / United States, 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, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Black & Asian Studies, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), Slavery and abolition of slavery, c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, American Civil War, HISTORY / Military / Early Modern Warfare (1500-1800), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional