Seizing the New Day
Subtitle: African Americans in Post-Civil War Charleston (Blacks in the Diaspora)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780253216090
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Black studies; Slavery & emancipation; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - General History; History: American; South Carolina; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; United States - 19th Century/Gilded Age; United States - State & Local - General; United States - General
First sentence: To understand how blacks in the South adjustment to freedom during Reconstruction, we must first look at the experience of slavery.