Nothing but Freedom Emancipation and Its Legacy

Name: Nothing but Freedom Emancipation and Its Legacy
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ISBN: 9780807132890

ISBN-10: 0807132896

ISBN-13: 9780807132890

Edition: 2007

Authors: Eric Foner, Steven Hahn

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Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land they worked on, to the men they worked for, and to the government they lived under. Taking a comparative approach, Foner examines Reconstruction in the Southern states against the experience of Haiti, the British Caribbean, and early twentieth-century southern and eastern Africa. He reveals Reconstruction to have been, despite its failings, a unique and dramatic experiment in interracial democracy in the aftermath of slavery. Steven Hahn's timely new foreword places Foner's analysis in the context of…

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List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: LSU Press
Publication date: 9/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Eric Foner is a professor of American history at Columbia University.

Steven Hahn is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor in American History at University of Pennsylvania.