Description
Book SynopsisWritten by three prominent historians of the period, Slavery's Ghost forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America.
Trade ReviewSlavery's Ghost advances our understandings of nineteenth-century freedom in new and challenging ways. It deserves to become mandatory reading in all upper-level undergraduate and graduate U.S. and African American history courses. -- Ted Maris-Wolf Journal of Southern History
Table of ContentsForeword
Introduction
Agency: A Ghost Story
Abraham Lincoln, Colonization, and the Rights of Black Americans
Legacies of Enslavement: Plantation Identities and the Problem of Freedom
Conclusion
Notes
Guide to Further Reading
Index
