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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823383503321

Titolo

Slavery, resistance, freedom / / 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

0-19-771632-6

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

Oxford scholarship online

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)

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

"Gettysburg Civil War Institute books"--P. [ii].

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Scott Hancock -- American slavery in history and memory / Ira Berlin -- The quest for freedom : runaway slaves and the



plantation South / John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweniger -- "Tradition informs us" : African Americans' construction of memory in the antebellum North / Scott Hancock -- Black and on the border / Edward L. Ayers, William G. Thomas III, and Anne Sarah Rubin -- A stranger in the club : the Army of the Potomac's Black Division / Noah Andre Trudeau -- "The tocsin of freedom" : the Black leadership of radical reconstruction / Eric Foner.

Sommario/riassunto

These essays focus on how African Americans resisted slavery and how they responded when finally free. The stage is set by stressing the relationship between how we understand slavery and how we discuss race today. Then follows an examination of all aspects of slavery in America.