Title Slavery, resistance, freedom / edited by Gabor Boritt and Scott Hancock ; essays by Ira Berlin [and others]

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 165 pages) : map Series Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books Gettysburg Civil War Institute books. Contents Introduction / Scott Hancock -- American slavery in history and memory / Ira Berlin -- The quest for freedom : runaway slaves and the plantation South / John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweniger -- "Tradition informs us" : African Americans' construction of memory in the antebellum North / Scott Hancock -- Black and on the border / Edward L. Ayers, William G. Thomas III, and Anne Sarah Rubin -- A stranger in the club : the Army of the Potomac's Black Division / Noah Andre Trudeau -- "The tocsin of freedom" : the Black leadership of radical reconstruction / Eric Foner Summary Acknowledgements Gabor S. Boritt. Introduction Scott Hancock. Ch 1: American Slavery in History and Memory, Ira Berlin. Ch 2: The Quest for Freedom: Runaway Slaves and the Plantation South, John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweniger. Ch 3: "Tradition Informs Us": African Americans' Construction of memory in the Antebellum North, Scott Hancock. Ch 4: Black and on the Border, Edward L. Ayers, William G. Thomas III, and Anne Sarah Rubin. Ch 5: A Stranger in the Club: The Army of the Potomac's Black Division, Noah Andre Trudeau. Ch 6: "The Tocsin of Freedom": The Black Leadership Notes "Gettysburg Civil War Institute books"--Page [ii] Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-162) Notes Print version record Subject African American leadership -- History -- 19th century. African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964. Fugitive slaves -- United States -- History. Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History. Memory -- Social aspects -- United States -- History. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Slave insurrections -- United States -- History. Slavery -- United States -- Historiography. Slavery -- United States -- History. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book Author Berlin, Ira, 1941-2018. Boritt, G. S., 1940- Hancock, Scott. Gettysburg Civil War Institute. ISBN 0198026242 (electronic bk.) 9780198026242 (electronic bk.) (hbk.) (hbk.)

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