On the threshold of freedom
Subtitle: masters and slaves in Civil War Georgia
By: Clarence L. Mohr ; with a new preface by the author.
Edition: Louisiana pbk. ed.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Slavery -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century.; Plantation life -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century.; Georgia -- Race relations.; Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.; Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-385) and index.
Originally published: Athens : University of Georgia, 1986.