Beyond Slavery
Subtitle: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780807825419
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Slavery & emancipation; Individual And The State; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Slavery; History; History - General History; History: World; Cuba; Jamaica; USA; West Africa; Freedmen; World - General; Africa - General; Race; Slaves; Caribbean & West Indies - General; Citizenship; Emancipation
First sentence: Governor Harris's pithy assertion that slavery emancipation necessarily entailed the creation of a new society nicely frames the essential problematic of contemporary studies of postemancipation societies.