Freedom

Freedom

Freedom

Slaves worked. When, where, and especially how, they worked determined the course of their lives ...

As slavery collapsed during the American Civil War, former slaves struggled to secure their liber...

Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of the 200,000 black men who fought in the Civil War, in their...

Drawn from the documentary history of emancipation that has been described as 'this generation's ...

Union occupation of parts of the Confederacy during the Civil War forced federal officials to con...

An award-winning historian's sweeping new interpretation of the African American experience. In t...

So central was labor in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for gra...

When nearly 200,000 black men, most of them former slaves, entered the Union army and navy, they ...

Freedom

Perhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slaver...

Ira Berlin offers a framework for understanding slavery's demise in the United States. Emancipati...

Originally published: New York: Pantheon, 1975, c1974.

Through the dramatic and moving letters and testimony of freed slaves, 'Families and Freedom' tel...

The groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning...

Available for the first time in an inexpensive paperback edition--letters, personal testimonies, ...

A master historian traces African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in th...