Description: Slavery's Ghost by Richard Follett, Eric Foner, Walter Johnson Written by three prominent historians of the period, Slaverys Ghost forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence and making the promise of freedom and equal rights. This is a moment to celebrate and honor, to be sure, but what of the darker, more troubling side of this story? Slaverys Ghost explores the dire, debilitating, sometimes crushing effects of slavery on race relations in American history. In three conceptually wide-ranging and provocative essays, the authors assess the meaning of freedom for enslaved and free Americans in the decades before and after the Civil War. They ask important and challenging questions: How did slaves and freedpeople respond to the promise and reality of emancipation? How committed were white southerners to the principle of racial subjugation? And in what ways can we best interpret the actions of enslaved and free Americans during slavery and Reconstruction? Collectively, these essays offer fresh approaches to questions of local political power, the determinants of individual choices, and the discourse that shaped and defined the history of black freedom.Written by three prominent historians of the period, Slaverys Ghost forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America. Author Biography Richard Follett is Reader in American history at the University of Sussex, England, and author of The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisianas Cane World, 1820-1860. Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and author of many books, including 2011 Pulitzer-Prize winner The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. Walter Johnson is the Winthrop Professor of History and professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and author of Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Table of Contents ForewordIntroductionAgency: A Ghost StoryAbraham Lincoln, Colonization, and the Rights of Black AmericansLegacies of Enslavement: Plantation Identities and the Problem of FreedomConclusionNotesGuide to Further ReadingIndex Review Slaverys Ghost advances our understandings of nineteenth-century freedom in new and challenging ways. It deserves to become mandatory reading in all upper-level undergraduate and graduate U.S. and African American history courses. -- Ted Maris-Wolf Journal of Southern History Long Description President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence with the promise of freedom and equal rights. This is a moment to celebrate and honor, to be sure, but what of the darker, more troubling side of this story? Slaverys Ghost explores the dire, debilitating, sometimes crushing effects of slavery on race relations in American history. In three conceptually wide-ranging and provocative essays, the authors assess the meaning of freedom for enslaved and free Americans in the decades before and after the Civil War. Slaverys Ghost asks important and challenging questions: How did slaves and freedpeople respond to the promise and reality of emancipation? How committed were white southerners to the principle of racial subjugation? And in what ways can we best interpret the actions of enslaved and free Americans during slavery and Reconstruction? Collectively, these essays offer fresh approaches to questions of local political power, the determinants of individual choices, and the discourse that shaped and defined the history of black freedom. Written by three prominent historians of the period, Slaverys Ghost forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America. Review Text "" Slaverys Ghost advances our understandings of nineteenth-century freedom in new and challenging ways. It deserves to become mandatory reading in all upper-level undergraduate and graduate U.S. and African American history courses."" Review Quote Slaverys Ghost advances our understandings of nineteenth-century freedom in new and challenging ways. It deserves to become mandatory reading in all upper-level undergraduate and graduate U.S. and African American history courses. Details ISBN1421402351 Author Walter Johnson Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press Series The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series Year 2011 ISBN-10 1421402351 ISBN-13 9781421402352 Format Hardcover Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press Subtitle The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation Place of Publication Baltimore, MD Country of Publication United States DEWEY 306.3620973 Pages 128 Short Title SLAVERYS GHOST Language English Media Book Audience Age 13 Illustrations No Publication Date 2011-12-27 NZ Release Date 2011-12-27 US Release Date 2011-12-27 UK Release Date 2011-12-27 Alternative 9781421402369 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2011-11-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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