Slavery, resistance, freedom

Publication Data

• Title Slavery, resistance, freedom
• Contributors G. S. Boritt, Scott Hancock, Ira Berlin, Gettysburg Civil War Institute
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location New York
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

"Gettysburg Civil War Institute books"--P. [ii].

Contents

Introduction / Scott Hancock
American slavery in history and memory / Ira Berlin
The quest for freedom : runaway slaves and the plantation South / John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweniger
"Tradition informs us" : African Americans' construction of memory in the antebellum North / Scott Hancock
Black and on the border / Edward L. Ayers, William G. Thomas III, and Anne Sarah Rubin
A stranger in the club : the Army of the Potomac's Black Division / Noah Andre Trudeau
"The tocsin of freedom" : the Black leadership of radical reconstruction / Eric Foner.

Topics

• Slavery :: United States :: History
• Slavery :: United States :: Historiography
• Memory :: Social aspects :: United States :: History
• Government, Resistance to :: United States :: History
• Fugitive slaves :: United States :: History
• Slave insurrections :: United States :: History
• African Americans :: Social conditions :: To 1964
• African American leadership :: History :: 19th century
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
• United States :: History :: Civil War, 1861-1865 :: Participation, African American
• United States

Slavery, resistance, freedom. ISBN 9780195102222. Published by Oxford University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.