Been in the Storm So Long Paperback / softback - 1980
by Leon F. Litwack
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- Title Been in the Storm So Long
- Author Leon F. Litwack
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition 1st Vintage Book
- Condition New
- Pages 672
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, Westminster, Maryland, U.s.a.
- Date 1980-08-12
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780394743981_inp
- ISBN 9780394743981 / 0394743989
- Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.7 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 4.32 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Southern States - Social conditions
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 80011073
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.049
From the jacket flap
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, "The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in "the peculiar institution."
"Contents
1. "The Faithful Slave"
2. Black Liberators
3. Kingdom Comin'
4. Slaves No More
5. How Free is Free?
6. The Feel of Freedom: Moving About
7. Back to Work: The Old Compulsions
8. Back to Work: The New Dependency
9. The Gospel and the Primer
10. Becoming a People
Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, "The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in "the peculiar institution."
"Contents
1. "The Faithful Slave"
2. Black Liberators
3. Kingdom Comin'
4. Slaves No More
5. How Free is Free?
6. The Feel of Freedom: Moving About
7. Back to Work: The Old Compulsions
8. Back to Work: The New Dependency
9. The Gospel and the Primer
10. Becoming a People
