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Slavery, resistance, freedom / edited by Gabor Boritt and Scott Hancock ; essays by Ira Berlin ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--United States--History.
- Slavery.
- African American leadership.
- History.
- Slave rebellions.
- Fugitive slaves.
- Government, Resistance to.
- Memory--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Slavery--United States--Historiography.
- Historiography.
- Memory--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Memory.
- Government, Resistance to--United States--History.
- Fugitive slaves--United States--History.
- Slave rebellions--United States--History.
- African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American.
- African American leadership--History--19th century.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- Physical Description:
- xix, 165 pages : map ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Americans have always defined themselves in terms of their freedoms--of speech, of religion, of political dissent. How we interpret our history of slavery--the ultimate denial of these freedoms--deeply affects how we understand the very fabric of our democracy. This extraordinary collection of essays by some of America's top historians focuses on how African Americans resisted slavery and how they responded when finally free. Ira Berlin sets the stage by stressing the relationship between how we understand slavery and how we discuss race today. Theremaining essays offer a richly textured examination of all aspects of slavery in America. John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger recount actual cases of runaway slaves, their motivations for escape and the strains this widespread phenomenon put on white slave-owners. Scott Hancock explores howfree black Northerners created a proud African American identity out of the oral history of slavery in the south. Edward L. Ayers, William G. Thomas III, and Anne Sarah Rubin draw upon their remarkable Valley of the Shadow website to describe the wartime experiences of African Americans living onboth borders of the Mason-Dixon line. Noah Andre Trudeau turns our attention to the war itself, examining the military experience of the only all-black division in the Army of the Potomac. And Eric Foner gives us a new look at how black leaders performed during the Reconstruction, revealing thatthey were far more successful than is commonly acknowledged--indeed, they represented, for a time, the fulfillment of the American ideal that all people could aspire to political office. Wide-ranging, authoritative, and filled with invaluable historical insight, Slavery, Resistance, Freedom brings a host of powerful voices to America's evolving conversation about race.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Gettysburg Civil War Institute books"--P. [ii].
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-162).
- ISBN:
- 9780195102222
- 0195102223
- OCLC:
- 76792026
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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