The Long Emancipation the Demise of Slavery in the United States
Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In The Long Emancipation, Ira B...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Nathan I. Huggins lectures.
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Table of Contents:
- The near-century-long demise of slavery
- Sounding the egalitarian clarion
- The bloody struggle endures
- Coda: free at last.
