Slavery's Ghost by Walter Johnson
Written by three prominent historians of the period, Slavery's Ghost forces readers to think critically about the way we study the past, the depth of racial prejudice, and how African Americans won and lost their freedom in nineteenth-century America.
Slavery's Ghost advances our understandings of nineteenth-century freedom in new and challenging waysIt deserves to become mandatory reading in all upper-level undergraduate and graduate U.S. and African American history courses. -- Ted Maris-Wolf Journal of Southern History
Richard Follett is Reader in American history at the University of Sussex, England, and author of The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves in Louisiana's Cane World, 1820-1860. Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University and author of many books, including 2011 Pulitzer-Prize winner The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. Walter Johnson is the Winthrop Professor of History and professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and author of Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781421402369 |
| ISBN 10 | 142140236X |
| Title | Slavery's Ghost |
| Author | Walter Johnson |
| Series | The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 2011-12-27 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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