Slavery's Ghost : The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation

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Slavery's Ghost : The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation

Title remainder

The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation

Statement of responsibility

Richard Follett, Eric Foner, Walter Johnson

Creator

• Follett, Richard J., 1968-

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• African Americans -- Race identity | History -- 19th century
• Electronic books
• Freed persons -- United States -- Social conditions
• Identity (Psychology) -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Plantation owners -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877
• Slavery -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
• Slavery -- United States -- Psychological aspects | History
• Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States
• Slaveholders -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

"Three thoughtful contributions . . . attempt to deepen and extend an emerging discussion about the limits to African American freedom and autonomy." -Slavery & Abolition President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence and making the promise of freedom and equal rights. This is a moment to celebrate and honor, to be sure, but what of the darker, more troubling side of this story? Slavery's Ghost explores the dire, debilitating, sometimes crushing effects of slavery on race relations in American history. In three conceptually wide-ranging and provocative essays, the authors assess the meaning of freedom for enslaved and free Americans in the decades before and after the Civil War. They ask important and challenging questions: How did slaves and freedpeople respond to the promise and reality of emancipation? How committed were white southerners to the principle of racial subjugation? And in what ways can we best interpret the actions of enslaved and free Americans during slavery and Reconstruction? Collectively, these essays offer fresh approaches to questions of local political power, the determinants of individual choices, and the discourse that shaped and defined the history of black freedom. Written by three prominent historians of the period, Slavery's Ghost forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

306.3/620973

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

The Marcus Cunliffe lecture series

Target audience

adult