Overview :The three essays in this volume present an introduction to history of the emancipation of the slaves during the Civil War. The first essay t... Read More
Overview :Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery d... Read More
Overview :An award-winning historian's sweeping new interpretation of the African American experience. In this masterful account, Ira Berlin, one of... Read More
Overview :Drawn from the work of award-winning Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland, Families and Freedom tells the sto... Read More
Overview :Today most Americans, black and white, identify slavery with cotton, the deep South, and the African-American church. But at the beginning o... Read More
Overview :Widely recognized as "one of the nation's foremost scholars on the slave era" (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prize-winning historian Ira Berlin ha... Read More
Overview :In 1998, The New Press published Remembering Slavery, a book-and-tape set that offered a startling first-person history of slavery. Using ex... Read More
Overview :In 1998, The New Press published Remembering Slavery, a book-and-tape set that offered a startling first-person history of slavery. Using ex... Read More
Overview :As slavery collapsed during the American Civil War, former slaves struggled to secure their liberty, reconstitute their families, and create... Read More