num_pages: 448
description: In this enlightening study, Clarence L. Mohr follows the demise of chattel slavery in one state of the Confederate South. Like the slavery regime itself, Mohr’s story is biracial in character, embracing the perspectives of both blacks and whites as they struggled to comprehend the approach of black freedom within a framework of attitudes and assumptions shaped by decades of mutual exposure to Georgia’s peculiar institution. By exploring in detail the changing patterns of black-white interaction that preceded legal emancipation in 1865, On the Threshold of Freedom defines central tendencies within Georgia slavery and suggests important links between antebellum life and the events of early Reconstruction.
language: English
title: On The Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia
titlecomplete: On The Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia
genres: History
ratings_count: 11
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award
publisher: LSU Press