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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450927803321

Titolo

Slavery, resistance, freedom [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gabor S. Boritt ; Scott Hancock, assistant editor ; essays by Ira Berlin ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-19-028287-8

1-281-15873-9

9786611158736

0-19-802624-2

1-4294-9111-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Collana

Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books

Altri autori (Persone)

BorittG. S. <1940->

HancockScott

BerlinIra <1941->

Disciplina

326.0973

Soggetti

Slavery - United States - History

Slavery - United States - Historiography

Memory - Social aspects - United States - History

Government, Resistance to - United States - History

Fugitive slaves - United States - History

Slave insurrections - United States - History

African Americans - Social conditions - To 1964

African American leadership - History - 19th century

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Electronic books.

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Participation, African American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. American Slavery in History and Memory; 2. The Quest for Freedom: Runaway Slaves and the Plantation South; 3. ''Tradition Informs Us'': African Americans' Construction of Memory in the Antebellum North; 4. Black and on the Border; 5. A Stranger in the Club: The Army of the Potomac's Black



Division; 6. ''The Tocsin of Freedom'': The Black Leadership of Radical Reconstruction; Notes; Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Acknowledgements Gabor S. Boritt. Introduction Scott Hancock. Ch 1: American Slavery in History and Memory, Ira Berlin. Ch 2: The Quest for Freedom: Runaway Slaves and the Plantation South, John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweniger. Ch 3: ""Tradition Informs Us"": African Americans' Construction of memory in the Antebellum North, Scott Hancock. Ch 4: Black and on the Border, Edward L. Ayers, William G. Thomas III, and Anne Sarah Rubin. Ch 5: A Stranger in the Club: The Army of the Potomac's Black Division, Noah Andre Trudeau. Ch 6: ""The Tocsin of Freedom"": The Black Leadership of Radical Recon