This extraordinary collection of essays by some of America's top historians focuses on how African Americans resisted slavery and responded to freedom. INDICE: Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: American Slavery in History and Memory; 2: The Quest for Freedom: Runaway Slaves and the Plantation South; 3: 'Tradition Informs Us': African Americans' Construction of Memory in the Antebellum North; 4: Black and on the Border; 5: A Stranger in the Club: The Army of the Potomac's Black Division; 6: 'The Tocsin of Freedom': The Black Leadership of Radical Reconstruction; Notes; Contributors
- ISBN: 978-0-19-538460-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha Publicación: 05/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés