Becoming free in the cotton South [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Eva O'Donovan

• Autore: O'Donovan Susan E
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 364 p. ) : map
• Disciplina: 973.7/11409758
• Soggetto topico: Slaves - Georgia - Social conditions - 19th century; Freedmen - Georgia - History - 19th century; Slavery - Social aspects - Georgia - History - 19th century; Slaves - Emancipation - United States; Cotton growing - Social aspects - Georgia - History - 19th century; Plantation life - Georgia - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Georgia Social conditions 19th century; Georgia History Civil War, 1861-1865; Georgia History 1865-; Georgia Race relations History 19th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-355) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Becoming free in the cotton South
• ISBN: 0-674-04160-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459559303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: ACLS Humanities E-Book.