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Author : Ira Berlin
Release : 1985
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Freedom: Volume 1, Series 1: The Destruction of Slavery by : Ira Berlin
Download or read book Freedom: Volume 1, Series 1: The Destruction of Slavery written by Ira Berlin. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.
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Release : 2008
Genre : African Americans
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Book Synopsis Land and Labor, 1865 by :
Download or read book Land and Labor, 1865 written by . This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War. Letters and testimony by the participants--former slaves, former slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, and others-reveal the connection between developments in workplaces across the South and an intensifying political contest over the meaning of freedom and the terms of national reunification. Essays by the editors place the documents in interpretive context and illuminate the major themes.
Author : Steven Hahn
Release : 2017-06
Genre : African Americans
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Book Synopsis Freedom: a Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 by : Steven Hahn
Download or read book Freedom: a Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 written by Steven Hahn. This book was released on 2017-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land and Labor, 1865 examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War. Letters and testimony by the participants--former slaves, former slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, and others--reveal the connection between developments in workplaces across the South and an intensifying political contest over the meaning of freedom and the terms of national reunification. Essays by the editors place the documents in interpretive context and illuminate the major themes. In the tense and often violent aftermath of emancipation, former slaves seeking to ground their liberty in economic independence came into conflict with former owners determined to keep them dependent and subordinate. Overseeing that conflict were northern officials with their own notions of freedom, labor, and social order. This volume of Freedom depicts the dramatic events that ensued--the eradication of bondage and the contest over restoring land to ex-Confederates; the introduction of labor contracts and the day-to-day struggles that engulfed the region's plantations, farms, and other workplaces; the achievements of those freedpeople who attained a measure of independence; and rumors of a year-end insurrection in which ex-slaves would seize the land they had been denied and exact revenge for past oppression.
