One Kind of Freedom
Subtitle: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 16, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780521795500
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Economic history; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History: American; Economic conditions; History - U.S.; United States - Reconstruction Period (1865-1877); USA; Slavery; United States - State & Local - General; History / United States / General; Southern States--Economic conditions; African Americans; United States - General; 1865-1951; History; Southern States
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.