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The Long Emancipation - The Demise of Slavery in the United States (Hardcover)
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The Long Emancipation - The Demise of Slavery in the United States (Hardcover)
Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
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Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned
debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions
about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested
more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth
Amendment. In The Long Emancipation, Ira Berlin draws upon decades
of study to offer a framework for understanding slavery's demise in
the United States. Freedom was not achieved in a moment, and
emancipation was not an occasion but a near-century-long process-a
shifting but persistent struggle that involved thousands of men and
women. Berlin teases out the distinct characteristics of
emancipation, weaving them into a larger narrative of the meaning
of American freedom. The most important factor was the will to
survive and the enduring resistance of enslaved black people
themselves. In striving for emancipation, they were also the first
to raise the crucial question of their future status. If they were
no longer slaves, what would they be? African Americans provided
the answer, drawing on ideals articulated in the Declaration of
Independence and precepts of evangelical Christianity. Freedom was
their inalienable right in a post-slavery society, for nothing
seemed more natural to people of color than the idea that all
Americans should be equal. African Americans were not naive about
the price of their idealism. Just as slavery was an institution
initiated and maintained by violence, undoing slavery also required
violence. Freedom could be achieved only through generations of
long and brutal struggle.
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