One Kind of Freedom
Subtitle: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 1, 1978
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9780521292030
Subjects: American history; History: American; Business / Economics / Finance; USA; Southern States; United States - General; History / United States / General; African Americans; 1865-; Economic Conditions; History
First sentence: At the conclusion of a long and bloody civil war, with their emancipation from slavery and involuntary servitude, over 4 million Americans were permitted a kind of political and economic freedom for the first time in their lives.