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The Long Emancipation

The Demise of Slavery in the United States

The Long Emancipation( )
Author: Berlin, Ira
Series title:The Nathan I Huggins Lectures
ISBN:978-0-674-98655-8
Publication Date:Nov 2018
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $36.95
Book Description:

Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Long Emancipation, Ira Berlin draws upon decades of study to offer a framework for understanding slavery's demise in the United States. Freedom was not achieved in a moment, and emancipation was not an...
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Book Details
Pages:240
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Slavery
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
History / United States / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):11.113 x 18.098 x 1.651 cm
Book Weight:0.205 Kilograms
Author Biography
Berlin, Ira (Author)
Ira Berlin was born in New York City on May 27, 1941. He received a bachelor of science degree in chemistry in 1963, a master's degree in history in 1966, and a Ph.D. in history in 1970, all from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle and Federal City College in Washington before becoming a professor at the University of Maryland in 1974.

He wrote numerous books including Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America, and The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States. He also edited several books including Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation with Marc Favreau and Steven F. Miller. He died from complications of multiple myeloma on June 5, 2018 at the age of 77.

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