Seizing Freedom

Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All

AvDavid R Roediger

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roediger's radical new history redefines the idea of freedom after the jubilee, using fresh sources and texts to build on the leading historical accounts of Emancipation and Reconstruction.Reinstating ex-slaves' own "freedom dreams" in constructing these histories, Roediger creates a masterful account of the emancipation and its ramifications on a whole host of day-to-day concerns for Whites and Blacks alike, such as property relations, gender roles, and labor.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-11-03
Mått:140 x 210 x 19 mm
Vikt:311 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Verso Books
ISBN:9781784780258

Utforska kategorier

Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik
Politisk aktivism inom Samhälle och politik
Slaveri inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

David Roediger is Kendrick Babcock Chair of History at the University of Illinois. Among his books are Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day (with Philip S. Foner), How Race Survived US History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon, and The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. He is the editor of Fellow Worker: The Life of Fred Thompson, The North and Slavery and Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White as well as a new edition of Covington Hall's Labor Struggles in the Deep South. His articles have appeared in New Left Review, Against the Current, Radical History Review, History Workshop Journal, The Progressive and Tennis.

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Roediger's spellbinding account of black self-emancipation and the array of movements accelerated by this 'general strike of the slaves,' as Du Bois put it, reminds us that it is never too late to take up the democratic promise of Radical Reconstruction.