TY - GEN N2 - This book challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or the ending of the story, as most histories do, O'Donovan explores the perilous transition between these two conditions, offering a unique vision of both the enormous changes and the profound continuities in black life before and after the Civil War. DO - 10.4159/9780674041608 DO - doi AB - This book challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or the ending of the story, as most histories do, O'Donovan explores the perilous transition between these two conditions, offering a unique vision of both the enormous changes and the profound continuities in black life before and after the Civil War. T1 - Becoming Free in the Cotton South / AU - O'Donovan, Susan Eva, JF - HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) JF - Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 CN - E445.G3 -- O36 2007eb LA - eng LA - In English. ID - 1478635 KW - Cotton growing KW - Cotton growing KW - Freedmen KW - Freedmen KW - Plantation life KW - Plantation life KW - Slavery KW - Slavery KW - Slaves KW - Slaves KW - Slaves KW - Slaves KW - HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877). SN - 9780674041608 TI - Becoming Free in the Cotton South / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674041608 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674041608 ER -