The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States

The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States
ISBN-10
0674495489
ISBN-13
9780674495487
Category
Social Science
Pages
235
Language
English
Published
2015-09-15
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Ira Berlin

Description

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.

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