Nothing but freedom : emancipation and its legacy / Eric Foner.

By:

Foner, Eric, 1943-

Series: The Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern history | Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern historyPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1983.Description: xii, 142 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

080711118X
9780807111185
0807111899
9780807111895

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

History.

DDC classification:

326/.0973 19

LOC classification:

HT1031 .F66 1983

NLM classification:

326 F673n

Other classification:

MS 1660
326

Contents:

The anatomy of emancipation -- The politics of freedom -- The emancipated worker.

Summary: The first essay examines the aftermath of slavery in Haiti and the British Caribbean, and also looks briefly at early twentieth-century racial and economic relations in southern and eastern Africa; The second essay turns to how the issues and patterns prevalent in the Caribbean and Africa were duplicated in the postemancipation United States; The third essay examines a specific set of events during American Reconstruction, the strikes of rice workers along the Combahee River in South Carolina, to illustrate how many issues were resolved at the local level. The purpose of this book, then, was to examine crucial aspects of the forging of a new social order in the aftermath of slavery.--Excerpted from the Introduction pp. 1-3.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The anatomy of emancipation -- The politics of freedom -- The emancipated worker.

The first essay examines the aftermath of slavery in Haiti and the British Caribbean, and also looks briefly at early twentieth-century racial and economic relations in southern and eastern Africa; The second essay turns to how the issues and patterns prevalent in the Caribbean and Africa were duplicated in the postemancipation United States; The third essay examines a specific set of events during American Reconstruction, the strikes of rice workers along the Combahee River in South Carolina, to illustrate how many issues were resolved at the local level. The purpose of this book, then, was to examine crucial aspects of the forging of a new social order in the aftermath of slavery.--Excerpted from the Introduction pp. 1-3.

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