Families And Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Families And Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era
By (Author) Ira Berlin
Edited by Leslie S. Rowland
The New Press
The New Press
9th November 1998
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
History of the Americas
Civil wars
Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare)
Ethnic studies
Biography: philosophy and social sciences
973.0496073
Physical Properties
Paperback
260
Width 155mm, Height 235mm
417g
Description
Drawn from the work of award-winning Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland, Families and Freedom tells the story of the remaking of the black family during the tumultuous years of the Civil War era. Through the dramatic and moving letters and testimony of freed slaves, the documents in Families and Freedom provide deep insight into the most intimate aspects of the transformation of slaves to free people. This book is the sequel to the 1994 Lincoln Prize winner Free at Last.
Author Bio
Ira Berlin and Leslie S. Rowland, editors of Free at Last (The New Press), teach history at the University of Maryland. They are former and present directors, respectively, of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project, which is compiling a multivolume documentary history of the transition from slavery to freedom.
