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Titolo: Slavery, resistance, freedom / / edited by Gabor S. Boritt ; Scott Hancock, assistant editor ; essays by Ira Berlin ... [et al.] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, c2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (188 p.)
Disciplina: 326.0973
Soggetto topico: 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)
Soggetto geografico: United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Participation, African American
Altri autori: BorittG. S. <1940->  
HancockScott  
BerlinIra <1941->  
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Slavery, resistance, freedom  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-771632-6
0-19-028287-8
1-281-15873-9
9786611158736
0-19-802624-2
1-4294-9111-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910823383503321
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Serie: Oxford scholarship online.