The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States (The Nathan I. Huggins lectures #17)
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- Synopsis
- Ira Berlin offers a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the United States. Emancipation was not an occasion but a century-long process of brutal struggle by generations of African Americans who were not naive about the price of freedom. Just as slavery was initiated and maintained by violence, undoing slavery also required violence.
- Copyright:
- 2015
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 240 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780674088993
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780674286085
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 06/27/18
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- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.