
First Freedom
The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction
Peter Kolchin(Author)
The University of Alabama Press
Published on 30. October 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-8173-5535-7 (ISBN)
Description
Crucial changes occurred during the years following the Civil War as blacks manifested their desire to live as independently as possible and to reject every social relation reminiscent of slavery. This classic study of the history of post-slave societies helped to initiate historiographic trends that remain central to the study of emancipation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Alabama
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8173-5535-7 (9780817355357)
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Persons
Peter Kolchin is Henry Clay Reed Professor of History at the University of Delaware. His other works include A Sphinx on the American Land: The 19th Century South in Comparative Perspective, American Slavery: 1619-1877, and Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom.