On the threshold of freedom : masters and slaves in Civil War Georgia / Clarence L. Mohr ; with a new preface by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mohr, Clarence L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Georgia--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Plantation life--Georgia--History--19th century.

Plantation life.

History.

Social aspects.

African Americans.

Race relations.

Georgia--Race relations.

Georgia.

Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.

United States.

Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 397 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Edition:

Louisiana paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2001.

Summary:

In this enlightening study, Clarence L. Mohr follows the demise of chattel slavery in one state of the Confederate South. Like the slavery regime itself, Mohr's story is biracial in character, embracing the perspectives of both blacks and whites as they struggled to comprehend the approach of black freedom within a framework of attitudes and assumptions shaped by decades of mutual exposure to Georgia's peculiar institution. By exploring in detail the changing patterns of black-white interaction that preceded legal emancipation in 1865, On the Threshold of Freedom defines central tendencies within Georgia slavery and suggests important links between antebellum life and the events of early Reconstruction.

Notes:

Originally published: Athens : University of Georgia, 1986.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-385) and index.

ISBN:

0807126918

OCLC:

45634615

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