Acknowledgements Gabor S. Boritt. Introduction Scott Hancock. Ch 1: American Slavery in History and Memory, Ira Berlin. Ch 2: The Quest for Freedom: Runaway Slaves and the Plantation South, John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweniger. Ch 3: "Tradition Informs Us": African Americans' Construction of memory in the Antebellum North, Scott Hancock. Ch 4: Black and on the Border, Edward L. Ayers, William G. Thomas III, and Anne Sarah Rubin. Ch 5: A Stranger in the Club: The Army of the Potomac's Black Division, Noah Andre Trudeau. Ch 6: "The Tocsin of Freedom": The Black Leadership.
Publisher:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Note:
"Gettysburg Civil War Institute books"--Page ii
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-162).
Contents:
Introduction / Scott Hancock -- American slavery in history and memory / Ira Berlin -- The quest for freedom : runaway slaves and the plantation South / John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweniger -- "Tradition informs us" : African Americans' construction of memory in the antebellum North / Scott Hancock -- Black and on the border / Edward L. Ayers, William G. Thomas III, and Anne Sarah Rubin -- A stranger in the club : the Army of the Potomac's Black Division / Noah Andre Trudeau -- "The tocsin of freedom" : the Black leadership of radical reconstruction / Eric Foner.
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