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On the threshold of freedom: masters and slaves in Civil War Georgia

Clarence L. Mohr
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  • Contents

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  • Frontmatter (page N/A)
  • Preface to the Paperback Edition (page xi)
  • Acknowledgments (page xvii)
  • Introduction (page xxi)
  • PART ONE Rebellious Slaves and the Slaveholders' Rebellion
  • 1 Harpers Ferry and the Limits of White Paternalism (page 3)
  • 2 Politics, Secession, and the Continuing Reign of Terror (page 20)
  • 3 Black Georgians and the Union War Effort, 1861-1865 (page 68)
  • PART TWO Slavery Stretched Thin: The Limits of Wartime Institutional Change
  • 4 Masters, Slaves, and the Refugee Experience (page 99)
  • 5 Blacks and Wartime Industrialization (page 120)
  • 6 Georgia Blacks and the Urban Revolution (page 190)
  • 7 The Transformation of Rural Bondage (page 210)
  • PART THREE Expedient Moderation: From Ameliorative Reform to Confederate Emancipation
  • 8 Black Bondage and the Climax of Ameliorative Gradualism (page 235)
  • 9 Black Liberty and the Meaning of Confederate Nationalism (page 272)
  • Epilogue (page 294)
  • Notes (page 297)
  • Bibliography (page 367)
  • Index (page 387)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JEH 46.4 (Dec. 1986): 1065-1066 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28198612%2946%3A4%3C1065%3AOTTOFM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R
JSH 53.1 (Feb. 1987): 115-117 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-4642%28198702%2953%3A1%3C115%3AOTTOFM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C
AHR 93.1 (Feb. 1988): 235-236 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198802%2993%3A1%3C235%3AOTTOFM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A
JAH 73.4 (March 1987): 1041-1042 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28198703%2973%3A4%3C1041%3AOTTOFM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4
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Published: 2001
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780807126912 (paper)
Subject
  • American: 1789-1899
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