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Freedom: Volume 3, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labour: The Lower South - A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R5,349
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Freedom: Volume 3, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labour: The Lower South - A Documentary History of Emancipation,...

Freedom: Volume 3, Series 1: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labour: The Lower South - A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 (Hardcover)

Ira Berlin, Thavolia Glymph, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland, Julie Saville

Series: Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation

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Union occupation of parts of the Confederacy during the Civil War forced federal officials to confront questions about the social order that would replace slavery. This volume of Freedom presents a documentary history of the emergence of free-labor relations in the large plantation areas of the Union-occupied Lower South. The documents illustrate the experiences of former slaves as military laborers, as residents of federally sponsored "contraband camps," as wage laborers on plantations and in towns, and in some instances, as independent farmers and self-employed workers. Together with the editors' interpretative essays, these documents portray the different understandings of freedom advanced by the many participants in the wartime evolution of free labor--former slaves and free blacks; former slaveholders; Union military officers and officials in Washington; and Northern planters, ministers and teachers. The war sealed the fate of slavery only to open a contest over the meaning of freedom. This volume documents an important chapter of that contest. Ira Berlin is the Director of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project, University of Maryland.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation
Release date: 1991
First published: 1990
Editors: Ira Berlin • Thavolia Glymph • Steven F. Miller • Joseph P. Reidy • Leslie S. Rowland • Julie Saville
Dimensions: 236 x 163 x 53mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 976
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-39493-2
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
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LSN: 0-521-39493-7
Barcode: 9780521394932

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