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Author

O'Donovan, Susan E.

Title Becoming free in the cotton South / Susan Eva O'Donovan.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	973.714 Od5b 2007	---	Available

Description	xii, 364 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-355) and index.
Contents	Doing the master's bidding -- Civil War in the land of Goshen -- Finding freedom's edges -- Black women and the domestication of free labor -- To make a laborers' state -- Coda: That strange land of shadows.
Subject	Slaves -- Georgia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Freedmen -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century.
	Slavery -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century.
	Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States.
	Cotton growing -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century.
	Plantation life -- Georgia -- History -- 19th century.
	Georgia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
	Georgia -- History -- 1865-
	Georgia -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN	0674024834
	9780674024830
Standard No.	YDXCP 2494058