Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History)
By Eric Foner.
Description
Foreword by Steven Hahn Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land they worked on, to the men they worked for, and to the government they lived under. Taking a comparative approach, Eric Foner examines Reconstruction in the southern states against the experience of Haiti, where a violent slave revolt was followed by the establishment of an undemocratic government and the imposition of a system of forced labor; the British Caribbean, where ...
ISBN(s)
0807111899, 9780807111895
