Slavery, resistance, freedom
By: edited by Gabor Boritt and Scott Hancock ; essays by Ira Berlin ... [et al.]
Contributors: Boritt, G. S., 1940-; Hancock, Scott; Berlin, Ira, 1941-; Gettysburg Civil War Institute
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780195102222
Subjects: Slavery -- United States -- History; Slavery -- United States -- Historiography; Memory -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History; Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History; Slave insurrections -- United States -- History; African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964; African American leadership -- History -- 19th century; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American
Notes: "Gettysburg Civil War Institute books"--P. [ii]

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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