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Been in the Storm So Long

The Aftermath of Slavery

The Aftermath of Slavery

By Leon F. Litwack

By Leon F. Litwack

By Leon F. Litwack

By Leon F. Litwack

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Aug 12, 1980 | ISBN 9780394743981

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    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

    About Been in the Storm So Long

    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

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    About Leon F. Litwack

    Leon F. Litwack, PhD is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, and North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States,… More about Leon F. Litwack

    About Leon F. Litwack

    Leon F. Litwack, PhD is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow, Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, and North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States,… More about Leon F. Litwack

    Product Details

    Category: Civil War Period

    Paperback | $24.00
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 12, 1980 | 672 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780394743981

    Category: Civil War Period

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Vintage
    Dec 15, 2010 | 672 Pages | ISBN 9780307773616

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    Praise

    "Litwack displays a keen sense of the revealing expression and incident; a controlled passion against injustice and cruelty; and a grasp–not always in evidence these days–of the elements of genuine tragedy in the black-white confrontation that has shaped southern history."–Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review

    "As a comprehensive study of the coming of freedom, Litwack’s book has no rival."–C. Vann Woodward, The New York Review of Books

    Awards

    Francis Parkman Prize WINNER 1980

    National Book Awards WINNER 1981

    Pulitzer Prize WINNER 1980

    Table Of 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

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