The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States (The Nathan I. Huggins lectures)

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Book

Authors

Ira Berlin

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History, Abolition, African-American Studies, Discrimination & Racism, 19th Century, African American

Description

Ira Berlin offers a framework for understanding slavery’s demise in the United States. Emancipation was not an occasion but a century-long process of brutal struggle by generations of African Americans who were not naive about the price of freedom. Just as slavery was initiated and maintained by violence, undoing slavery also required violence. - from Amzon

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