Israel on the Appomattox : a southern experiment in Black freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War / Melvin Patrick Ely.
2004
F232.P83 E49 2004 (Mapit)
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Israel on the Appomattox : a southern experiment in Black freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War / Melvin Patrick Ely.
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Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0679447385
Publication Details
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.
Language
English
Description
x, 640 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
F232.P83 E49 2004
Alternate Call Number
15.85
Dewey Decimal Classification
975.5/63200496073
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [475]-614) and index.
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Table of Contents
The view from Israel Hill, 1863
Liberty and happiness
The promised land
Work
Challenges
Law and order
Worldviews
Progress and struggle
Appomattox and the new birth of freedom
The search for meaning in the southern free black experience.
Liberty and happiness
The promised land
Work
Challenges
Law and order
Worldviews
Progress and struggle
Appomattox and the new birth of freedom
The search for meaning in the southern free black experience.