Families And Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Families And Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Ira Berlin
Edited by Leslie S. Rowland
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:260
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 155
Category/GenreBiographies and autobiography
Slavery and abolition of slavery
American civil war
ISBN/Barcode 9781565844407
ClassificationsDewey:973.0496073
Audience
Professional & Vocational
General

Publishing Details

Publisher The New Press
Imprint The New Press
Publication Date 1 April 1998
Publication Country United Kingdom

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 Biography

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.