Slavery's Ghost: The Problem of Freedom in the Age of
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Follett, Richard / Foner, Eric / Johnson, Walter, PUBLISHER: Johns Hopkins University Press, President Abraham Lincoln freed millions <strong>ofstrong> slaves in the South in , rescuing them, as <strong>historystrong> tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence with the promise <strong>ofstrong> freedom and equal rights. This is a moment to celebrate and honor, to be sure, but what <strong>ofstrong> the darker, more troubling side <strong>ofstrong> this story? "Slavery's Ghost" explores the dire, debilitating, sometimes crushing effects <strong>ofstrong> slavery on race relations in American <strong>historystrong>. In three conceptually wide-ranging and provocative essays, the authors assess the meaning <strong>ofstrong> freedom for enslaved and free Americans in the decades before and after the Civil War. "Slavery's Ghost" asks important and challenging questions: How did slaves and freedpeople respond to the promise and reality <strong>ofstrong> emancipation? How committed were white southerners to the principle <strong>ofstrong> racial subjugation? And in what ways can we best interpret the actions <strong>ofstrong> enslaved and free Americans during slavery and Reconstruction? Collectively, these essays <strong>ofstrong>fer fresh approaches to questions <strong>ofstrong> local political power, the determinants <strong>ofstrong> individual choices, and the discourse that shaped and defined the <strong>historystrong> <strong>ofstrong> black freedom. Written by three prominent historians <strong>ofstrong> the period, "Slavery's Ghost" forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth <strong>ofstrong> racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America. Acquista Ora