Freedom in a Slave Society

Johanna Nicol Shields

earliest edition we have, 2012 Cambridge University Press, 2014 paperback 344 pages

Cambridge studies on the American South

"Before the Civil War, most Southern white people were as strongly committed to freedom for their kind as to slavery for African Americans. This study views that tragic reality through the lens of eight authors - representatives of a South that seemed, to them, destined for greatness but was, we know, on the brink of destruction. Exceptionally able and ambitious, these men and women won repute among the educated midd...

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Freedom in a Slave Society paperback · 2014 · Cambridge University Press · 344 pages · 9781107670655
Freedom in a Slave Society edition · 2012 · Cambridge University Press · 9781139515092
Freedom in a Slave Society edition · 2012 · Cambridge University Press · 9781139512299
Freedom in a Slave Society hardcover · 2012 · Cambridge University Press · 318 pages · 9781107013377
Freedom in a Slave Society edition · 2012 · Cambridge University Press · 9781139004039
Freedom in a Slave Society edition · 2012 · Cambridge University Press · 9781139516747
Freedom in a Slave Society edition · 2012 · Cambridge University Press · 344 pages · 9781283574686

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