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Slavery and freedom in Savannah / edited by Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Georgia--Savannah--History.
- African Americans.
- Slavery--Georgia--Savannah--History.
- Slavery.
- Antislavery movements--Georgia--Savannah--History.
- Antislavery movements.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Georgia--Savannah.
- Enslaved persons.
- Free African Americans--Georgia--Savannah--History.
- Free African Americans.
- African Americans--Georgia--Savannah--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- History.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--British colonies.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--French colonies.
- Savannah (Ga.)--History.
- Savannah (Ga.).
- Savannah (Ga.)--Race relations.
- Savannah (Ga.)--Social life and customs.
- Georgia--Savannah.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 262 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2014]
- Contents:
- 1. The transatlantic slave trade comes to Georgia / James A. McMillin
- 2. "The King of England's soldiers": armed blacks in Savannah and its hinterlands during the Revolutionary War era, 1778-1787 / Timothy Lockley
- 3. At the intersection of cotton and commerce: antebellum Savannah and its slaves / Susan Eva O'Donovan
- 4. To "venerate the spot" of "airy visions": slavery and the romantic conception of place in Mary Telfair's Savannah / Jeffrey Robert Young
- 5. Slave life in Savannah: geographies of autonomy and control / Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry
- 6. Free black life in Savannah / Janice L. Sumler-Edmond
- 7. Wartime workers, moneymakers: Black labor in Civil War-era Savannah / Jacqueline Jones
- 8. "We defy you!": politics and violence in reconstruction Savannah / Jonathan M. Bryant
- 9. "The fighting has not been in vain": African American intellectuals in Jim Crow Savannah / Bobby J. Donaldson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780820344102
- 0820344109
- 9780820344096
- 0820344095
- OCLC:
- 853618650
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