| Edition |
New edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 274 pages) : illustrations |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Note |
"Paperback reissue, with a new preface by the author, 2018." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-257) and index. |
| Contents |
Exposing slavery -- Imagining emancipation -- Freedom's memorial -- Slavery's memorial -- Common soldiers. |
| Summary |
The United States of America originated as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how that history of slavery and its violent end was told in public space - specifically in the sculptural monuments that increasingly came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Awards |
Hope Franklin Publication Prize |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
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Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States.
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Public sculpture, American -- 19th century.
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National characteristics, American -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- Race relations.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| Added Title |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0691183155 |
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9780691016160 (alk. paper) |
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069101616X |
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9780691183152 paperback |
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9780691184524 ebook |
| Standard No. |
heb40122 hdl |
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