Slavery and freedom in Savannah, edited by Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry
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Slavery and freedom in Savannah, edited by Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and index
resource.governmentPublication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
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maps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Slavery and freedom in Savannah
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
853618650
Responsibility statement
edited by Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry
Table Of 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