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The Long Emancipation : The Demise of Slavery in the United States / Ira Berlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berlin, Ira, 1941-2018, Author.
- Series:
- The Nathan I. Huggins lectures
- The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures ; 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American abolitionists--History.
- African American abolitionists.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History.
- Antislavery movements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (236 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ira Berlin offers a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the United States. Emancipation was not an occasion but a century-long process of brutal struggle by generations of African Americans who were not naive about the price of freedom. Just as slavery was initiated and maintained by violence, undoing slavery also required violence.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Near- Century- Long 12 Demise of Slavery
- 2. Sounding the Egalitarian Clarion
- 3.The Bloody Struggle Endures
- Coda: Free at Last
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780674088993
- 0674088999
- OCLC:
- 925305858
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