Title Becoming free in the cotton South / Susan Eva O'Donovan

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 364 pages) : map Series ACLS Humanities E-Book Contents Doing the master's bidding -- Civil War in the land of Goshen -- Finding freedom's edges -- Black women and the domestication of free labor -- To make a laborers' state -- Coda: That strange land of shadows Summary '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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-355) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Enslaved persons -- Georgia -- Social conditions -- 19th century Freed persons -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century Slavery -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States Cotton growing -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century Plantation life -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century HISTORY. HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) Cotton growing -- Social aspects Freed persons Plantation life Race relations Slavery -- Social aspects Enslaved persons -- Emancipation Enslaved persons -- Social conditions Social conditions Abschaffung Baumwollplantage Soziale Situation Sklaverei SUBJECT Georgia -- Social conditions -- 19th century Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054223 Georgia -- History -- 1865- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054226 Georgia -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century Subject Georgia United States Georgia. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2006052022 ISBN 9780674041608 0674041607

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