"Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as historian Jim Downs revea…
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Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, suffering, and death. But the war produced the largest biological crisis of the nineteenth century, and as the author reveals in this…
"This book explores the limits of religious dissent in antebellum America, and reminds us of the difficulties facing reformers who tried to end slavery through peaceful protest."--Jacket.
In the years before the Civil War, the Society of Friends opposed the abolitionist campaign for an immediate end to slavery and considered abolitionists within the church as heterodox radicals seeking to destroy civil and religious liberty. This work reminds us of the difficulti…
Moves beyond broad generalizations concerning black life during Reconstruction in order to address the varied experiences of freed slaves across the South. This collection examines urban unrest in New Orleans and Wilmington, North Carolina, loyalty among former slave owners and …
Focuses on labor and politics to help develop broader interpretive trends in the post-emancipation US South.
Focuses on labor and politics to help develop broader interpretivetrends in the post-emancipation US South.
Focuses on labor and politics to help develop broader interpretive trends in the post-emancipation US South.