The Meaning Of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture after Slavery

ISBN-13: 9780822954798 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 352 str.

Frank McGlynn;Seymour Drescher

Opis

In this interdisciplinary study, scholars consider the aftermath of slavery, focusing on Caribbean societies and the southern United States. What was the nature and impact of slave emancipation? Did the change in legal status conceal underlying continuities in American plantation societies? Was there a common postemancipation pattern of economic development? How did emancipation affect the politics and culture of race and class? These and other questions are addressed.