First Freedom

The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8173-5535-7
Verlag: University of Alabama Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Crucial changes occurred during the years following the Civil War as blacks manifested their desire to live as independently as possible and to reject every social relation reminiscent of slavery. This classic study of the history of post-slave societies helped to initiate historiographic trends that remain central to the study of emancipation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kolchin, Peter

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Kolchin is Henry Clay Reed Professor of History at the University of Delaware. His other works include A Sphinx on the American Land: The 19th Century South in Comparative Perspective, American Slavery: 1619-1877, and Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom.