Slavery's ghost : the problem of freedom in the age of emancipation /
"President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence and making the promise of freedom and equal rights. This is a moment to celebrate and honor, to be sure, but what of the darker, more troubling side...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2011.
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Series: | Marcus Cunliffe lecture series.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |