Beyond Slavery
Subtitle: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; University of North Carolina Press
Published: July 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780807848548
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Slavery & emancipation; Race; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Caribbean & West Indies - General; Slaves; History; History - General History; History: World; Cuba; Jamaica; USA; West Africa; Freedmen; Slavery; World - General; History / Africa; History / World; Social Science-Slavery; Africa - 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.