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Lädt ... On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgiavon Clarence L. Mohr
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. The war that southerners waged to prevent change was itself a powerful agent of change; as they waged war southerners were forced to make major changes in the structure of their ‘peculiar institution.’ The demands of the war forced slaves into new occupational roles, lessened the controls over them, and increased the geographic mobility of many of them. Many of the traditional institutions of control evaporated under the pressure of war. “The basic norms of a relatively static and immobile society became all but impossible to maintain.” (111) Mohr argues that by 1865 Georgia stood on the brink of emancipation; by that point it was inevitable, regardless of the military outcome. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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In this enlightening study, Clarence L. Mohr follows the demise of chattel slavery in one state of the Confederate South. Like the slavery regime itself, Mohr?s story is biracial in character, embracing the perspectives of both blacks and whites as they struggled to comprehend the approach of black freedom within a framework of attitudes and assumptions shaped by decades of mutual exposure to Georgia?s peculiar institution. By exploring in detail the changing patterns of black-white interaction that preceded legal emancipation in 1865, On the Threshold of Freedom defines central tendencies within Georgia slavery and suggests important links between antebellum life and the events of early Reconstruction. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)975.8History and Geography North America Southeastern U.S. GeorgiaKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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