Becoming Free in the Cotton South

Susan E O'Donovan

Harvard University Press

2009

378 páginas

12h 36m

ISBN-13: 9780674041608

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.