Becoming free in the cotton South / Susan Eva O'Donovan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Donovan, Susan E.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Georgia--Social conditions--19th century.

Enslaved persons.

Freed persons--Georgia--History--19th century.

Freed persons.

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

Slavery.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.

Cotton growing--Social aspects--Georgia--History--19th century.

Cotton growing.

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

Plantation life.

Georgia--Social conditions--19th century.

Georgia.

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

Georgia--History--1865-.

Georgia--Race relations--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 364 p. ) map ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or the ending of the story, as most histories do, O'Donovan explores the perilous transition between these two conditions, offering a unique vision of both the enormous changes and the profound continuities in black life before and after the Civil War.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Doing the Master's Bidding

2. Civil War in the Land of Goshen

3. Finding Freedom's Edges

4. Black Women and the Domestication of Free Labor

5. To Make a Laborers' State

Coda: That Strange Land of Shadows

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-355) and index.

ISBN:

9780674041608

0674041607

OCLC:

923116841