Slavery, resistance, freedom
By: edited by Gabor Boritt and Scott Hancock ; essays by Ira Berlin [and others]
Contributors: Gettysburg Civil War Institute
Series: Gettysburg Civil War Institute books; Gettysburg Civil War Institute books
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780195384604
Subjects: Historiography; African American Participation; Resistance to Government; Social aspects; African American leadership; Slavery; Military participation; Slave insurrections; Fugitive slaves; Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877) fast (OCoLC)fst01754987; Memory; Social conditions; African American; History; African Americans; American Civil War (1861-1865) fast (OCoLC)fst01351658; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-162).
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Scott Hancock; title: American slavery in history and memory / Ira Berlin; title: The quest for freedom : runaway slaves and the plantation South / John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweniger; title: "Tradition informs us" : African Americans' construction of memory in the antebellum North / Scott Hancock; title: Black and on the border / Edward L. Ayers, William G. Thomas III, and Anne Sarah Rubin; title: A stranger in the club : the Army of the Potomac's Black Division / Noah Andre Trudeau; title: "The tocsin of freedom" : the Black leadership of radical reconstruction / Eric Foner.