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O'Donovan, Susan Eva

Becoming Free in the Cotton South / Susan Eva O'Donovan. - 1 online resource (384 p.)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Doing the Master’s Bidding -- 2. Civil War in the Land of Goshen -- 3. Finding Freedom’s Edges -- 4. Black Women and the Domestication of Free Labor -- 5. To Make a Laborers’ State -- Coda: That Strange Land of Shadows -- Notes -- Index

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This book challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or the ending of the story, as most histories do, O'Donovan explores the perilous transition between these two conditions, offering a unique vision of both the enormous changes and the profound continuities in black life before and after the Civil War.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9780674041608

Standard No.: 10.4159/9780674041608 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cotton growing--Social aspects--History--19th century--Georgia.
Cotton growing--Social aspects--History--Georgia--19th century.
Freedmen--History--19th century--Georgia.
Freedmen--History--Georgia--19th century.
Plantation life--History--19th century--Georgia.
Plantation life--History--Georgia--19th century.
Slavery--Social aspects--History--19th century--Georgia.
Slavery--Social aspects--History--Georgia--19th century.
Slaves--Emancipation--United States.
Slaves--Emancipation--United States.
Slaves--Social conditions--19th century--Georgia.
Slaves--Social conditions--Georgia--19th century.
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877).

LC Class. No.: E445.G3 -- O36 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 973.7/11409758