Format:
1 Online-Ressource (287 pages)
ISBN:
9780820347066
Content:
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York , a volume Leslie M. Harris coedited with Ira Berlin. Here Harris and Daina Ramey Berry have collected a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life in Savannah from the city's founding to the early twentieth century. Written by leading historians of Savannah, Georgia, and the South, the volume includes a mix of longer thematic essays and shorter sidebars focusing on individual people, events, and places. The story of slavery in Savannah may s
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Cover; Contents; List of Sidebars; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Transatlantic Slave Trade Comes to Georgia; Chapter 2 "The King of England's Soldiers": Armed Blacks in Savannah and Its Hinterlands during the Revolutionary War Era, 1778-1787; Chapter 3 At the Intersection of Cotton and Commerce: Antebellum Savannah and Its Slaves; Chapter 4 To "Venerate the Spot" of "Airy Visions": Slavery and the Romantic Conception of Place in Mary Telfair's Savannah; Chapter 5 Slave Life in Savannah: Geographies of Autonomy and Control
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Chapter 6 Free Black Life in SavannahChapter 7 Wartime Workers, Moneymakers: Black Labor in Civil War-Era Savannah; Chapter 8 "We Defy You!": Politics and Violence in Reconstruction Savannah; Chapter 9 "The Fighting Has Not Been in Vain": African American Intellectuals in Jim Crow Savannah; Notes; Further Reading; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; S; T; V; W; Y
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780820344102
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Slavery and Freedom in Savannah
Language:
English
Keywords:
Savannah, Ga.
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Schwarze
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Sklaverei
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Soziale Situation
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