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Product Identifiers

PublisherNew Press, T.H.E.

ISBN-101595581731

ISBN-139781595581730

eBay Product ID (ePID)57277133

Product Key Features

Book TitleSlaves Without Masters : the Free Negro in the Antebellum South

Number of Pages428 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSlavery, United States / 19th Century, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, African American

Publication Year2007

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, History

AuthorIra Berlin

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight19 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2015-413354

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal305.8/96073/075

SynopsisThis classic volume by acclaimed historian Ira Berlin is a moving portrait of life for the thousands of free black people living in the American South before the Civil War., Widely recognized as "one of the nation's foremost scholars on the slave era" ( Boston Globe ), Bancroft Prize-winning historian Ira Berlin has changed the way we think about African American life in slavery and freedom. These two classic volumes, now available in handsome new editions, are indispensable resources for educators and general readers alike. First published to great acclaim in 1974, Slaves Without Masters established Berlin in his field and went on to win the National History Society's Best First Book Prize. It tells the moving story of the quarter of a million free black men and women who lived in the South before the Civil War, portraying "with careful scholarship, acute analysis, and admirable historical imagination" ( The New Republic ) their struggle for community, economic independence, and education within an oppressive society., Widely recognized as "one of the nation's foremost scholars on the slave era" ("Boston Globe"), Bancroft Prize-winning historian Ira Berlin has changed the way we think about African American life in slavery and freedom. This classic volume, now available in a handsome new edition, is an indispensable resource for educators and general readers alike. First published to great acclaim in 1974, "Slaves Without Masters" established Berlin in his field and went on to win the National History Society's Best First Book Prize. It tells the moving story of the quarter of a million free black men and women who lived in the South before the Civil War, portraying "with careful scholarship, acute analysis, and admirable historical imagination" ("The New Republic") their struggle for community, economic independence, and education within an oppressive society.

LC Classification NumberE185.18