Slavery and freedom in Savannah

Slavery and freedom in Savannah / edited by Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry.

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Leslie M. Harris coedited with Ira Berlin. Here Harris and Daina Ramey Berry have collected a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Harris, Leslie M. (Leslie Maria), 1965-, Berry, Daina Ramey
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2013.
Subjects:
African Americans > Georgia > Savannah > History.
Slavery > Georgia > Savannah > History.
Antislavery movements > Georgia > Savannah > History.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Georgia > Savannah.
Free African Americans > Georgia > Savannah > History.
African Americans > Georgia > Savannah > Social life and customs.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
African Americans
African Americans > Social life and customs
Antislavery movements
Free African Americans
Manners and customs
Race relations
Slavery
Enslaved persons > Emancipation
Savannah (Ga.) > History.
Savannah (Ga.) > Race relations.
Savannah (Ga.) > Social life and customs.
Georgia > Savannah
History
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Table of Contents:
  • The transatlantic slave trade comes to Georgia / James A. McMillin
  • "The King of England's soldiers": armed blacks in Savannah and its hinterlands during the Revolutionary War era, 1778-1787 / Timothy Lockley
  • At the intersection of cotton and commerce: antebellum Savannah and its slaves / Susan Eva O'Donovan
  • To "venerate the spot" of "airy visions": slavery and the romantic conception of place in Mary Telfair's Savannah / Jeffrey Robert Young
  • Slave life in Savannah: geographies of autonomy and control / Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry
  • Free black life in Savannah / Janice L. Sumler-Edmond
  • Wartime workers, moneymakers: Black labor in Civil War-era Savannah / Jacqueline Jones
  • "We defy you!": politics and violence in reconstruction Savannah / Jonathan M. Bryant
  • "The fighting has not been in vain": African American intellectuals in Jim Crow Savannah / Bobby J. Donaldson.

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