Anmerkungen:
In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Beschreibung:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Doing the Master's Bidding -- 2. Civil War in the Land of Goshen -- 3. Finding Freedom's Edges -- 4. Black Women and the Domestication of Free Labor -- 5. To Make a Laborers' State -- Coda: That Strange Land of Shadows -- Notes -- Index
This book challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or the ending of the story, as most histories do, O'Donovan explores the perilous transition between these two conditions, offering a unique vision of both the enormous changes and the profound continuities in black life before and after the Civil War