| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 510 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Cambridge studies on the American South |
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Cambridge studies on the American South.
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| Contents |
Prologue: Life -- and Labor -- on the Mississippi -- Part I: From War for Union to Military Emancipation, 1860-1862 -- "An Independent Power" -- Of Stampedes and Free Papers -- "Broken Eggs Cannot Be Mended" -- "The Unsatisfactory Prospect before Them" -- Part II: From Military Emancipation to State Abolition, 1863 -- "The Return of the Seceded States to This Union As Slave States" -- "Repugnant to the Spirit of the Age" -- "The Greatest Question Ever Presented to Practical Statesmanship" -- "The Name of 'Slavery'" -- "Repudiating the Emancipation Proclamation and Reestablishing Slavery" -- Part III: Abolition: State and Federal, 1864 -- "Slavery Is Incompatible with a Republican Form of Government" -- Of Foul Combinations and the Common Object -- "The Jewel of Liberty" -- "The Virus of Slavery Is As Virulent As It Ever Was" -- "No Longer Slaves but Freedmen" -- "So Long as a Spark of Vitality Remains in the Institution of Slavery" -- "Freedom, Full, Broad and Unconditional" -- "To Resolve Never Again To Be Reduced to Slavery" -- Part IV: The Destruction of Slavery, 1865 -- "The Tyrants Rod Has Been Broken" -- "This Cup of Liberty" -- "Establish Things As They Were before the War" -- "The Institution of Slavery Having Been Destroyed" -- "Americans in America, One and Indivisible" -- Epilogue: Memphis and New Orleans: May 1-3, and July 30, 1866 |
| Summary |
"This book is written for both specialists and a general audience. It addresses interpretive questions that are important to specialists on emancipation and the Civil War; and for general readers it weaves into a coherent narrative the war's military history, political developments, and the "on-the-ground" destruction of slavery"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 01, 2023) |
| Subject |
African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877.
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Freed persons -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Mississippi River Valley
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African Americans -- Mississippi River Valley -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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Slavery -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 19th century
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African Americans.
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African Americans -- Social conditions.
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Freed persons.
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Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
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Slavery.
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
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| SUBJECT |
Mississippi River Valley -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85086215
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| Subject |
Mississippi River Valley.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022034273 |
| ISBN |
9781108539715 |
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1108539718 |
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