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Record Nr.

UNISA996248217303316

Autore

Litwack Leon F

Titolo

North of slavery : the Negro in the free States, 1790-1860

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Chicago], : University of Chicago Press, [1961]

ISBN

1-282-07002-9

9786612070020

0-226-48587-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Disciplina

306.362

326.973

Soggetti

Freed persons

African Americans - Segregation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; 1 SLAVERY TO FREEDOM; 2 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THE FREE NEGRO; 3 THE POLITICS OF REPRESSION; 4 EDUCATION : SEPARATE AND UNEQUAL; 5 THE ECONOMICS OF REPRESSION; 6 THE CHURCH AND THE NEGRO; 7 ABOLITIONISM : WHITE AND BLACK; 8 THE CRISIS OF THE 1850's; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

"". . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. In his clear, lucid account of the Northern phase of the story Professor Litwack has performed a notable service.""-John Hope Franklin, Journal of Negro Education ""For a searching examination of the North Star Legend we are indebted to Leon F. Litwack. . . .""-C. Vann Woodward, The American Scholar