| What Was Freedom's Price? Contributor(s): Sansing, David G. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1604731753 ISBN-13: 9781604731750 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1978 Annotation: An examination of the peculiar position blacks experienced after Reconstruction when the freed slaves found themselves stuck between slavery and full citizenship |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 975 |
| Series: Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History S |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.42 lbs) 126 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Topical - Black History |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What Was Freedom's Price? Edited by David G. Sansing Essays by Willie Lee Rose, Joel Williamson, Richard Sutch & Roger Ransom, George M. Fredrickson, and C. Vann Woodward The political and economic instability of the post-Civil War South prompted Congress to enact legislation that brought sweeping changes to the region. However, the complexities of the new order in combination with the recalcitrance of the southern character produced a postwar society in which emancipated African Americans occupied a status somewhere between slavery and full citizenship. What was freedom like to these Blacks whose dream of equality and civil rights remained in deferral for more than a century? The essays in What Was Freedom's Price?, authored by now-well-known scholars and delivered during the backdrop of America's bicentennial, examine this question and probe the results of economic, social, and racial readjustment in the postbellum South. This book is the opening to a three-part investigation which includes The Age of Segregation: Race Relations in the South, 1890-1945 and concludes with Have We Overcome? Race Relations Since Brown, 1954-1979. All three are available again in paperback from University Press of Mississippi. David G. Sansing is Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Mississippi. |