by Peter Kolchin
preface by Peter Kolchin
University of Alabama Press, 2008
Paper: 978-0-8173-5535-7 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-8333-6
Library of Congress Classification E185.93.A3K64 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.896073076109

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Crucial changes occurred during the years following the Civil War as blacks manifested their desire to live as independently as possible and to reject every social relation reminiscent of slavery. This classic study of the history of post-slave societies helped to initiate historiographic trends that remain central to the study of emancipation.