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Slaves Without Masters is a vivid and moving history of the quarter of a million free blacks who lived in the South before the Civil War. First published to great acclaim in 1974, Slaves Without Masters established Ira Berlin as one of the outstanding historians of African American life in slavery and freedom. It traces the lives of free black men and women, portraying their struggle for community, liberty, economic independence, and education within an oppressive society.
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Ira Berlin is a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland in College Park, where he lives. He is the author of Many Thousands Gone, Generations of Captivity, and Slaves Without Masters (The New Press). He co-edited Remembering Slavery (with Marc Favreau and Steven F. Miller), Families and Freedom (with Leslie S. Rowland), and Slavery in New York (with Leslie M. Harris), all published by The New Press. His books have won the Frederick Douglass Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Abraham Lincoln Prize, among many other awards.
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Slaves Without Masters breaks new ground in the description and interpretation of southern history. . . Berlin's sensitivity to changes over time, to the expansion of freedom and its restriction, gives his book a fidelity to human experience, and ought to make it a model of narrative history.
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- PublisherNew Pr
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 1565840283
- ISBN 13 9781565840287
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages423
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