Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 18611867 (Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation)
Contributors: Ira Berlin (Editor); Thavolia Glymph (Editor); Steven F. Miller (Editor); Joseph P. Reidy (Editor); Leslie S. Rowland (Editor); Julie Saville (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 25, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 975
ISBN-13: 9780521394932
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Southern States; c 1800 to c 1900; African Americans; United States; United States - Civil War; Blacks In The U.S.; History: American; History - U.S.; Freedmen; United States - 19th Century; USA; History / United States / 19th Century; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Afro-Americans--Sources; Working class; Slaves; Sources; 19th century; Civil War, 1861-1865; Emancipation; History
First sentence: AS SLAVERY COLLAPSED during the American Civil War, fundamental questions arose about the social order that would replace the South's "peculiar institution."