Slavery, Resistance, Freedom, Gabor Boritt

Publisher: Oxford
ISBN: 9780195102222

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Americans have always defined themselves in terms of their freedoms--of speech, of religion, of political dissent. How we interpret the history of slavery--the ultimate denial of these freedoms--deeply affects how we understand the very fabric of democracy.
This extraordinary collection of essays by ten leading historians focuses on how African Americans resisted slavery and how they responded when finally free. Ira Berlin sets the stage by stressing the relationship between how we understand slavery and how we discuss race today. The remaining essays offer a richly textured examination of all aspects of slavery in America. John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger recount actual cases of runaway slaves, their motivations for escape and the strains this widespread phenomenon put on white slave-owners.

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