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Slavery, Resistance, Freedom (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Slavery, Resistance, Freedom (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Series: Gettysburg Civil War Institute
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Americans have always defined themselves in terms of their
freedoms--of speech, of religion, of political dissent. How we
interpret our history of slavery--the ultimate denial of these
freedoms--deeply affects how we understand the very fabric of our
democracy.
This extraordinary collection of essays by some of America's top
historians focuses on how African Americans resisted slavery and
how they responded when finally free. Ira Berlin sets the stage by
stressing the relationship between how we understand slavery and
how we discuss race today. The remaining essays offer a richly
textured examination of all aspects of slavery in America. John
Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger recount actual cases of runaway
slaves, their motivations for escape and the strains this
widespread phenomenon put on white slave-owners. Scott Hancock
explores how free black Northerners created a proud African
American identity out of the oral history of slavery in the south.
Edward L. Ayers, William G. Thomas III, and Anne Sarah Rubin draw
upon their remarkable Valley of the Shadow website to describe the
wartime experiences of African Americans living on both borders of
the Mason-Dixon line. Noah Andre Trudeau turns our attention to the
war itself, examining the military experience of the only all-black
division in the Army of the Potomac. And Eric Foner gives us a new
look at how black leaders performed during the Reconstruction,
revealing that they were far more successful than is commonly
acknowledged--indeed, they represented, for a time, the fulfillment
of the American ideal that all people could aspire to political
office.
Wide-ranging, authoritative, and filled with invaluable
historicalinsight, Slavery, Resistance, Freedom brings a host of
powerful voices to America's evolving conversation about race.
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