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Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
x, 306 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes how Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass set the groundwork in three historic meetings to abolish slavery in the United States, despite their differing perspectives on the war and the institution of slavery.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xvii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Steven Hahn's provocative new book challenges deep-rooted views in the writing of American and African-American history. Moving from slave emancipations of the eighteenth century through slave activity during the Civil War and on to the black power movements of the twentieth century, he asks us to rethink African-American history and politics in bolder, more dynamic terms."--Jacket
105) Sick from freedom: African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xiv, 264 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sick from Freedom provides the first study of the health conditions of emancipated slaves and reveals the epidemics, illnesses, and poverty that former slaves suffered from when slavery ended and freedom began"--
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
x, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in the Civil War era. However, David Williams suggests that this portrayal marginalizes the role that African American slaves played in freeing themselves. At the Civil War's outset, Lincoln made clear his intent was to save the Union rather than free slaves - despite his personal distaste for slavery, he...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858. Her life story, which she recounted in an oral history decades later, captures the complexity of emancipation. Based on interviews that Joyner and formerly enslaved people had with the Depression-era Federal Writers Project, historian Carole Emberton draws a portrait of the steps they took in order to feel free, something no legal mandate could instill. Joyner's life exemplifies the deeply...
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xi, 217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This book seeks to recover the lives and words of former slaves in detail by mining the case files of the U.S. Pension Bureau. These files contain first-hand perspective of slavery, emancipation, black military service, and freedom. It also explores the words of former slaves topically from recollections of slavery to life after emancipation.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 422 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the revered historian-winner of nearly every award given in his field-the long-awaited conclusion of his magisterial three-volume history of slavery in Western culture that has been more than fifty years in the making. David Brion Davis is one of the foremost historians of our time, and in this final volume in his monumental trilogy on slavery in Western culture he offers highly original, authoritative, and penetrating insight into what slavery...
111) The life of Lincoln
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + teacher and facilitator guides on CD
Language
English
Description
Portrays the life of Abraham Lincoln from his early days to his assassination and its aftermath using materials from the Indiana Historical Society's Lincoln collections along with contemporary footage of sites in Indiana and Illinois and interviews with Lincoln experts. The DVD also includes enhancement activities for use in the classroom that examine particular issues raised in the video in greater depth.
Author
Publisher
WorthyKids
Pub. Date
[2022].
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
"On June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the enslaved people of Texas finally learned that they were free. With this simple book, little ones will learn about the history of that first Juneteenth, how the celebration spread, and why we celebrate Juneteenth today" --
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
liv, 359 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Includes live recordings of interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writers' Project and dramatic readings from written interviews collected at that time.