Becoming Free in the Cotton South

by Susan Eva O'Donovan (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $34.12

  Challenges our basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. This book 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. It provides an understanding of the forces that shaped both slavery and freedom.