Freedom: Volume 2, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South - A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 (Paperback, New)

As slavery collapsed during the American Civil War, former slaves struggled to secure their liberty, reconstitute their families, and create the institutions befitting a free people. This volume of Freedom, first published in 1993, presents a documentary history of the emergence of free-labor relations in different settings in the Upper South. At first, most federal officials hoped to mobilize former slaves without either transforming the conflict into a war of liberation or assuming responsibility for the young, the old, or others not suitable for military employment. But as the Union army came to depend upon black workers and as the number of destitute freed people mounted, authorities at all levels grappled with intertwined questions of freedom, labor and welfare. Meanwhile, the former slaves pursued their own objectives, working within the constraints imposed by the war and Union occupation to fashion new lives as free people. The Civil War sealed the fate of slavery only to open a contest over the meaning of freedom. This volume of Freedom documents an important chapter in that contest.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation
Release date:	July 2012
First published:	July 2012
Editors:	Ira Berlin • Steven F. Miller • Joseph P. Reidy • Leslie S. Rowland
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 46mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	816
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-40579-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Slavery & emancipation Books > History > American history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
LSN:	1-107-40579-3
Barcode:	9781107405790

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