
Urn:oclc:record:1028026815 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier americanslaverya00morg_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7dr3zg4z Isbn 9780393324945Ġ39332494X Lccn 2004266284 Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.5 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary O元317421M Openlibrary_edition Wide-ranging, authoritative, and filled with invaluable historical insight, Slavery, Resistance, Freedom brings a host of powerful voices to America's evolving conversation about race.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:59:22 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA177101 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Donorĭanielsiders Edition Norton paperback ed., reissued External-identifier And Eric Foner gives us a new look at how black leaders performed during the Reconstruction, revealing that they were far more successful than is commonly acknowledged-indeed, they represented, for a time, the fulfillment of the American ideal that all people could aspire to political office. In the above-outlined events, it is the weariness from an enslaved and dissatisfying position that led to the quest for freedom for the disgruntled groups. Noah Andre Trudeau turns our attention to the war itself, examining the military experience of the only all-black division in the Army of the Potomac. The involvement of the American in the quest for financial, religious and political freedom can be attributed to the American freedom and American slavery. Thomas III, and Anne Sarah Rubin draw upon their remarkable Valley of the Shadow website to describe the wartime experiences of African Americans living on both borders of the Mason-Dixon line. Slavery, Abolition, and the Quest for Freedom: The Coming of the Civil War, 1793-1861 - Author: alball Last modified by: Zaksewicz, Tony Created Date: 3:24:10 AM Document presentation format: On-screen Show (4:3) Company: rsc. But the goods for which the United States demanded freedom were produced in very large measure by slave labor.
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PowerPoint PPT presentation free to download. moment, of the traditional American insistence on freedom of the seas. Scott Hancock explores how free black Northerners created a proud African American identity out of the oral history of slavery in the south. Vacherie, Louisiana's Oak Valley Plantation. John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweinger recount actual cases of runaway slaves, their motivations for escape and the strains this widespread phenomenon put on white slave-owners. The remaining essays offer a richly textured examination of all aspects of slavery in America. Ira Berlin sets the stage by stressing the relationship between how we understand slavery and how we discuss race today. This extraordinary collection of essays by some of America's top historians focuses on how African Americans resisted slavery and how they responded when finally free.

How we interpret our history of slavery-the ultimate denial of these freedoms-deeply affects how we understand the very fabric of our democracy.

"The tocsin of freedom" : the Black leadership of radical reconstruction / Eric Foner.Īmericans have always defined themselves in terms of their freedoms-of speech, of religion, of political dissent.A stranger in the club : the Army of the Potomac's Black Division / Noah Andre Trudeau.

"Tradition informs us" : African Americans' construction of memory in the antebellum North / Scott Hancock.The quest for freedom : runaway slaves and the plantation South / John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweniger.American slavery in history and memory / Ira Berlin.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-162).
