Title: Becoming free in the cotton South
First published: 2007
Description: 'Becoming Free in the Cotton South' is a moving and intimate narrative, drawing upon a multiplicity of sources and individual stories to provide an understanding of the forces that shaped both slavery and freedom, and of the generation of African Americans who tackled the passage that lay between.
Subjects: Slavery, united states, Freedmen, united states, Slaves, emancipation, united states, Cotton growing, Plantation life, Georgia, social conditions, Georgia, history, Georgia, race relations, Slaves, Social conditions, Freedmen, History, Slavery, Emancipation, Race relations, Freed persons, Social aspects
LC classification: E