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Been in the storm so long : the aftermath of slavery / Leon F. Litwack.
LIBRA - Rare E185.2 .L57 1980 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Litwack, Leon F.
- Series:
- Vintage ; V-398.
- Vintage ; V-398
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--History--1863-1877.
- African Americans.
- History.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- African Americans--Southern States--History.
- Southern States--History--1865-1877.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 651 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First Vintage Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, 1980.
- Summary:
- Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, "The New York Times Book Review") aims to show how, during the Civil War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in "the peculiar institution." "Contents" 1. "The Faithful Slave" 2. Black Liberators 3. Kingdom Comin' 4. Slaves No More 5. How Free is Free? 6. The Feel of Freedom: Moving About 7. Back to Work: The Old Compulsions 8. Back to Work: The New Dependency 9. The Gospel and the Primer 10. Becoming a People
- Contents:
- "The Faithful Slave"
- Black Liberators
- Kingdom Comin'
- Slaves No More
- How Free is Free?
- The Feel of Freedom: Moving About
- Back to Work: The Old Compulsions
- Back to Work: The New Dependency
- The Gospel and the Primer
- Becoming a People.
- Notes:
- "First Vintage Books Edition, August 1980."
- "Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in May 1979."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [627]-635) and index.
- Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0394743989 :
- OCLC:
- 6042974
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