Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War - Hardcover

Fields, Barbara J.; Miller, Steven F.; Reidy, Joseph P.; Rowland; Berlin, Ira

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565840151 ISBN 13: 9781565840157

Publisher: New Pr, 1992

Synopsis

A collection of letters, personal testimony, transcripts, and various official records documents the effects of Emancipation on blacks and white throughout the Union.

About this title

About the Author:

Ira Berlin is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland in College Park, where he lives. He is the author of Many Thousands Gone and Generations of Captivity and the co-editor of Remembering Slavery, Families and Freedom, and Slavery in New York (The New Press). His books have won the Frederick Douglass Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Abraham Lincoln Prize, among many other awards.

From Publishers Weekly:

This superb anthology makes available to general readers selected materials originally published in, or projected for, the multivolume reference work Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation (Cambridge University Press). This collection's editors are all connected with the Freedom Project; Berlin is the coordinator. The letters, reports and depositions included here, largely drawn from Union records, tell at first hand the human story of African Americans in the Civil War, which, the editors contend, was also a second American revolution. Between 1861 and 1865 government was transformed, citizienship redefined, social classes rearranged--and blacks were at the center of the process. The texts offered have a common denominator: the determination displayed by African American men and women to control their own destinies, especially in relations with whites. The editing and annotations are models of their kind, explaining and clarifying while preserving the originals' authenticity and immediacy. Illustrations.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1565840151
• ISBN 13: 9781565840157
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 571
• Editor: Berlin Ira