Slavery's Ghost The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation

Name: Slavery's Ghost The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation
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ISBN: 9781421402369

ISBN-10: 142140236X

ISBN-13: 9781421402369

Edition: 2011

Authors: Richard J. Follett, Eric Foner, Walter Johnson

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President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence with the promise of freedom and equal rights. This is a moment to celebrate and honor, to be sure, but what of the darker, more troubling side of this story? Slavery's Ghost explores the dire, debilitating, sometimes crushing effects of slavery on race relations in American history. In three conceptually wide-ranging and provocative essays, the authors assess the meaning of freedom for enslaved and free Americans in the decades before and after the Civil War. Slavery's Ghost asks important and challenging questions: How did slaves and freedpeople…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

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



Foreword



Introduction


Agency: A Ghost Story



Abraham Lincoln, Colonization, and the Rights of Black Americans



Legacies of Enslavement: Plantation Identities and the Problem of Freedom



Conclusion


Notes


Guide to Further Reading


Index