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Title Slavery and freedom in Savannah / edited by Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry.

Publication Info. Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2014]
2014

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Description 1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The transatlantic slave trade comes to Georgia / James A. McMillin -- "The King of England's soldiers": armed blacks in Savannah and its hinterlands during the Revolutionary War era, 1778-1787 / Timothy Lockley -- At the intersection of cotton and commerce: antebellum Savannah and its slaves / Susan Eva O'Donovan -- To "venerate the spot" of "airy visions": slavery and the romantic conception of place in Mary Telfair's Savannah / Jeffrey Robert Young -- Slave life in Savannah: geographies of autonomy and control / Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry -- Free black life in Savannah / Janice L. Sumler-Edmond -- Wartime workers, moneymakers: Black labor in Civil War-era Savannah / Jacqueline Jones -- "We defy you!": politics and violence in reconstruction Savannah / Jonathan M. Bryant -- "The fighting has not been in vain": African American intellectuals in Jim Crow Savannah / Bobby J. Donaldson.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject African Americans -- Georgia -- Savannah -- History.
Slavery -- Georgia -- Savannah -- History.
Antislavery movements -- Georgia -- Savannah -- History.
Slaves -- Emancipation -- Georgia -- Savannah.
Free African Americans -- Georgia -- Savannah -- History.
African Americans -- Georgia -- Savannah -- Social life and customs.
Savannah (Ga.) -- History.
Savannah (Ga.) -- Race relations.
Savannah (Ga.) -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Harris, Leslie M. (Leslie Maria), 1965- editor of compilation.
Berry, Daina Ramey, editor of compilation.
Other Form: Print version: Slavery and freedom in Savannah. Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2014] 9780820344102 (DLC)10849484
ISBN 9780820344096 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780820344102 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0820344109 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780820347066 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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