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The Destruction of slavery / [edited by] Ira Berlin ... [and others].
Van Pelt Library E185.2 .F88 ser.1 v.1
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Freedom, a documentary history of emancipation, 1861-1867 ; ser. 1, v. 1.
- Freedom, a documentary history of emancipation, 1861-1867 ; ser. 1, v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--History--1863-1877--Sources.
- African Americans.
- History.
- Freed persons.
- Biography.
- United States.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States--History--Sources.
- Enslaved persons.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- Freed persons--Biography.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans--Sources.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 852 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
- Summary:
- No event in American history matches the drama of emancipation. More than a century later, it continues to stir the deepest emotions. This book explicates the process by which slavery collapsed under the pressure of federal arms and the slaves' persistence in placing their own liberty on the wartime agenda. In documenting the transformation of the war for the Union into a war against slavery, it shifts the focus from Washington and Richmond to the plantations, farms, and battlefields of the South, and demonstrates how slaves helped accomplish their own emancipation and shape the destiny of the nation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521229790
- OCLC:
- 11916292
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