03172nam 2200733 a 450 991045955930332120200520144314.00-674-04160-710.4159/9780674041608(CKB)2660000000000193(dli)HEB06751(SSID)ssj0000333172(PQKBManifestationID)11226290(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000333172(PQKBWorkID)10335993(PQKB)11640622(MiAaPQ)EBC3300776(Au-PeEL)EBL3300776(CaPaEBR)ebr10396018(OCoLC)923116841(DE-B1597)574429(DE-B1597)9780674041608(EXLCZ)99266000000000019320060926d2007 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtccrBecoming free in the cotton South[electronic resource] /Susan Eva O'DonovanCambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press20071 online resource (xii, 364 p. ) map ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-02483-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-355) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Doing the Master's Bidding -- 2. Civil War in the Land of Goshen -- 3. Finding Freedom's Edges -- 4. Black Women and the Domestication of Free Labor -- 5. To Make a Laborers' State -- Coda: That Strange Land of Shadows -- Notes -- IndexThis book challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or the ending of the story, as most histories do, O'Donovan explores the perilous transition between these two conditions, offering a unique vision of both the enormous changes and the profound continuities in black life before and after the Civil War.ACLS Humanities E-Book.SlavesGeorgiaSocial conditions19th centuryFreedmenGeorgiaHistory19th centurySlaverySocial aspectsGeorgiaHistory19th centurySlavesEmancipationUnited StatesCotton growingSocial aspectsGeorgiaHistory19th centuryPlantation lifeGeorgiaHistory19th centuryGeorgiaSocial conditions19th centuryGeorgiaHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865GeorgiaHistory1865-GeorgiaRace relationsHistory19th centuryElectronic books.SlavesSocial conditionsFreedmenHistorySlaverySocial aspectsHistorySlavesEmancipationCotton growingSocial aspectsHistoryPlantation lifeHistory973.7/11409758O'Donovan Susan E791934MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459559303321Becoming free in the cotton South1770698UNINA