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The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States

By Ira Berlin

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780674088993
DOI
10.4159/9780674088993
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
670 kB (686308 bytes)
Series
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures; 17
Pages
240\235
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 09:08:26

Description

Ira Berlin offers a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the United States. Emancipation was not an occasion but a century-long process of brutal struggle by generations of African Americans who were not naive about the price of freedom. Just as slavery was initiated and maintained by violence, undoing slavery also required violence.

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