Slavery and freedom in Savannah /edited by Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry.
Slavery and freedom in Savannah /edited by Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry.
- Athens : The University of Georgia Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
The transatlantic slave trade comes to Georgia / "The King of England's soldiers": armed blacks in Savannah and its hinterlands during the Revolutionary War era, 1778-1787 / At the intersection of cotton and commerce: antebellum Savannah and its slaves / To "venerate the spot" of "airy visions": slavery and the romantic conception of place in Mary Telfair's Savannah / Slave life in Savannah: geographies of autonomy and control / Free black life in Savannah / Wartime workers, moneymakers: Black labor in Civil War-era Savannah / "We defy you!": politics and violence in reconstruction Savannah / "The fighting has not been in vain": African American intellectuals in Jim Crow Savannah / James A. McMillin -- Timothy Lockley -- Susan Eva O'Donovan -- Jeffrey Robert Young -- Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry -- Janice L. Sumler-Edmond -- Jacqueline Jones -- Jonathan M. Bryant -- Bobby J. Donaldson.
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Leslie M. Harris coedited with Ira Berlin. Here Harris and Daina Ramey Berry have collected a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life in Savannah from the city's founding to the early twentieth century. Written by leading historians of Savannah, Georgia, and the South, the volume includes a mix of longer thematic essays and shorter sidebars focusing on individual people, events, and places. The story of slavery in Savannah may s.
9780820347066
African Americans--History.--Georgia--Savannah
Slavery--History.--Georgia--Savannah
Antislavery movements--History.--Georgia--Savannah
Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Georgia--Savannah.
Free African Americans--History.--Georgia--Savannah
African Americans--Social life and customs.--Georgia--Savannah
Electronic Books.
F294 / .S538 2013
Includes bibliographies and index.
The transatlantic slave trade comes to Georgia / "The King of England's soldiers": armed blacks in Savannah and its hinterlands during the Revolutionary War era, 1778-1787 / At the intersection of cotton and commerce: antebellum Savannah and its slaves / To "venerate the spot" of "airy visions": slavery and the romantic conception of place in Mary Telfair's Savannah / Slave life in Savannah: geographies of autonomy and control / Free black life in Savannah / Wartime workers, moneymakers: Black labor in Civil War-era Savannah / "We defy you!": politics and violence in reconstruction Savannah / "The fighting has not been in vain": African American intellectuals in Jim Crow Savannah / James A. McMillin -- Timothy Lockley -- Susan Eva O'Donovan -- Jeffrey Robert Young -- Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry -- Janice L. Sumler-Edmond -- Jacqueline Jones -- Jonathan M. Bryant -- Bobby J. Donaldson.
Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Leslie M. Harris coedited with Ira Berlin. Here Harris and Daina Ramey Berry have collected a variety of perspectives on slavery, emancipation, and black life in Savannah from the city's founding to the early twentieth century. Written by leading historians of Savannah, Georgia, and the South, the volume includes a mix of longer thematic essays and shorter sidebars focusing on individual people, events, and places. The story of slavery in Savannah may s.
9780820347066
African Americans--History.--Georgia--Savannah
Slavery--History.--Georgia--Savannah
Antislavery movements--History.--Georgia--Savannah
Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Georgia--Savannah.
Free African Americans--History.--Georgia--Savannah
African Americans--Social life and customs.--Georgia--Savannah
Electronic Books.
F294 / .S538 2013