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Beyond Freedom

Disrupting the History of Emancipation

Beyond Freedom( )
Editor: Blight, David W.
Downs, Jim
Foreword by: Foner, Eric
Contribution by: Foner, Eric
Behrend, Justin
Downs, Greg
Emberton, Carole
Glymph, Thavolia
Manning, Chandra
Masur, Kate
Newman, Richard S.
Oakes, James
O'Donovan, Susan Eva
Rosen, Hannah
Stevenson, Brenda
Series title:UnCivil Wars Ser.
ISBN:978-0-8203-5149-0
Publication Date:Nov 2017
Publisher:University of Georgia Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $25.95
Book Description:

This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recentres our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did it mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Some of the essays disrupt the traditional story and time-frame of emancipation.

Book Details
Pages:208
Detailed Subjects: History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Political Science / Civil Rights
Political Science / Political Freedom
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.928 x 8.892 x 0.507 Inches
Book Weight:0.66 Pounds
Author Biography
(Editor)
Eric Foner is the preeminent historian of his generation. His books have won the top awards in the profession, and he has been president of both major history organizations, the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians. He is the author of Give Me Liberty!, which displays all of his trademark strengths as a scholar, teacher, and writer. A specialist on the Civil War/Reconstruction period, he regularly teaches the nineteenth-century survey at Columbia University, where he is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History. In 2011, Foner's The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Bancroft Prize, and the Lincoln Prize. His Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad is a 2015 New York Times bestseller.

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