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The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States

By Ira Berlin

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9780674286085 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 15, 2015, cover price $22.95

Freedom A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867: The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South

Product Description: As slavery collapsed during the American Civil War, former slaves struggled to secure their liberty, reconstitute their families, and create the institutions befitting a free people. This volume of Freedom presents a documentary history of the emergence of free-labor relations in different settings in the Upper South...read more

By Ira Berlin (editor), Steven F. Miller (editor), Joseph P. Reidy (editor) and Leslie S. Rowland (editor)

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9781107405790 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 26, 2012, cover price $74.99 | About this edition: As slavery collapsed during the American Civil War, former slaves struggled to secure their liberty, reconstitute their families, and create the institutions befitting a free people.

Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867

By Ira Berlin (editor), Barbara J. Fields (editor), Thavolia Glymph (editor), Joseph P. Reidy (editor) and Leslie S. Rowland (editor)

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9780521132145 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 10, 2010), cover price $94.99

The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations

Product Description: A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuries Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of more than six million blacks to the industrial cities of the north and west a century later; and since the late 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and Europe...read more

By Ira Berlin

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9780670021376 | Viking Pr, January 21, 2010, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four centuries Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of more than six million blacks to the industrial cities of the north and west a century later; and since the late 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and Europe.

The Barber of Natchez

By Ira Berlin (foreword by)

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9780807135532 | Revised edition (Louisiana State Univ Pr, November 30, 2010), cover price $21.95

Slavery, Resistance, Freedom

By Ira Berlin (contributor), Gabor Boritt (editor), John Hope Franklin (contributor), Scott Hancock (editor) and Loren Schweninger (contributor)

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9780195384604 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 1, 2009, cover price $15.95

Slavery, Resistance, Freedom

Essays address the issue of freedom as it applies to slaves in American history, discussing how African Americans resisted slavery and what their response was to freedom during and after the Civil War.

By Ira Berlin (contributor), Gabor Boritt (editor), John Hope Franklin (contributor), Scott Hancock (editor) and Loren Schweninger (contributor)

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9780195102222 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 14, 2007, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: Essays address the issue of freedom as it applies to slaves in American history, discussing how African Americans resisted slavery and what their response was to freedom during and after the Civil War.

Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

By Ira Berlin (editor), Marc Favreau (editor) and Steven F. Miller (editor)

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9780130171207, titled "The Human Resources Yearbook 1993/1994" | Prentice Hall Direct, June 1, 1993, cover price $79.95 | also contains Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation, The Human Resources Yearbook 1993/1994

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9781620970287 | Revised edition (New Pr, February 28, 2017), cover price $19.95

Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation

A republication of an anthology of first-person histories about the experiences of slavery is complemented by re-mastered compact discs in MP3 format containing its researchers' extensive original live recordings. Reprint.

By Ira Berlin (editor), Marc Favreau (editor) and Steven F. Miller (editor)

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9781595582287 | Pap/mp3 re edition (New Pr, October 30, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A republication of an anthology of first-person histories about the experiences of slavery is complemented by re-mastered compact discs in MP3 format containing its researchers' extensive original live recordings.

Slaves Without Masters; The Free Negro in the Antebellum South.

Describes the lives and socio-cultural patterns of free blacks in the antebellum South and their interaction with whites as determined largely by white attitudes, institutions, and patterns of thought

By Ira Berlin

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9780394490410 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, December 1, 1974), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Describes the lives and socio-cultural patterns of free blacks in the antebellum South and their interaction with whites as determined largely by white attitudes, institutions, and patterns of thought

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9781595581730, titled "Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South" | New Pr, November 27, 2007, cover price $18.95

9781565840287, titled "Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South" | Reissue edition (New Pr, October 1, 1992), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Describes the lives and socio-cultural patterns of free blacks in the antebellum South and their interaction with whites as determined largely by white attitudes, institutions, and patterns of thought.

Slavery in New York

A history of slavery in New York City is told through contributions by leading historians of African-American life in New York and is published to coincide with a major exhibit, in an anthology that demonstrates how slavery shaped the city's everyday experiences and directly impacted its rise to a commercial and financial power. Original. 10,000 first printing.

By Ira Berlin (editor) and Leslie M. Harris (editor)

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9781565849976 | New Pr, October 1, 2005, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A history of slavery in New York City is told through contributions by leading historians of African American life in New York and is published to coincide with a major exhibit, in an anthology that demonstrates how slavery shaped the city's everyday experiences and directly impacted its rise to a commercial and financial power.

Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves

A comprehensive account of slavery in America retraces the history of this institution, from its origins in the seventeenth century to its eventual destruction during the Civil War.

By Ira Berlin

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9780674010611 | Belknap Pr, March 25, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A comprehensive account of slavery in America retraces the history of this institution, from its origins in the seventeenth century to its eventual destruction during the Civil War.

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9780674016248 | Belknap Pr, September 30, 2004, cover price $27.00

Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration

By Ira Berlin (editor), Lexisnexis (corporate author), Ariel W. Simmons (editor) and South Caroliniana Library (corporate author)

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9781556559464 | Univ Pubns of Amer, March 1, 2004, cover price $55.01

9781556559471 | Univ Pubns of Amer, March 1, 2004, cover price $55.01

Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom

Draws on archival recordings to document the lives of slaves and their adjustment to freedom.

By Ira Berlin (editor), Marc Favreau (editor) and Steven F. Miller (editor)

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9781565844254 | Har/cas edition (New Pr, October 1, 1998), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Draws on archival recordings to document the lives of slaves and their adjustment to freedom

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9781565845879 | New Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Draws on archival recordings to document the lives of slaves and their adjustment to freedom.

9780062733436, titled "Gary Gillette's Baseball Companion 1995" | Harpercollins, February 1, 1995, cover price $14.00 | also contains Gary Gillette''s Baseball Companion 1995

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

Traces the development of Black society from the 1600s through the 1800s, describing the social conditions of both slaves and free Blacks (view table of contents)

By Ira Berlin

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9780674810921 | Belknap Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $31.50 | About this edition: Traces the development of Black society from the 1600s through the 1800s, describing the social conditions of both slaves and free Blacks

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9780674002111 | Belknap Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $31.00 | About this edition: Traces the development of Black society from the 1600s through the 1800s, describing the social conditions of both slaves and free Blacks

Families and Freedom: A Documentary History of African-American Kinship in the Civil War Era

Acclaimed by historians, a collection of moving letters from freed slaves searching for their families, assembled by the editors of Free at Last, capture the familial devotion that persisted despite all efforts to destroy it. Reprint. K. LJ. PW.

By Ira Berlin

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9781565840263 | New Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Draws on the letters and personal testimonies of freed slaves to describe the remaking of the African-American family during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras

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9781565844407 | New Pr, August 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Draws on the letters and personal testimonies of freed slaves to describe the remaking of the African-American family during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras

Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War

Product Description: When nearly 200,000 black men, most of them former slaves, entered the Union army and navy, they transformed the Civil War into a struggle for liberty and changed the course of American history. Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of those men in their own words and the words of other eyewitnesses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ira Berlin (editor), Joseph P. Reidy (editor) and Leslie S. Rowland (editor)

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9780521632584 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $84.99 | About this edition: When nearly 200,000 black men, most of them former slaves, entered the Union army and navy, they transformed the Civil War into a struggle for liberty and changed the course of American history.

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9780521634496 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: When nearly 200,000 black men, most of them former slaves, entered the Union army and navy, they transformed the Civil War into a struggle for liberty and changed the course of American history.

The Slaves' Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas

Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds and bequeathing property to their descendants. The editors of this volume contend that the legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the slaves' economy.

By Ira Berlin (editor) and Philip D. Morgan (editor)

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9780714634364 | Routledge, July 1, 1991, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds and bequeathing property to their descendants.

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9780714641720 | Reprint edition (Routledge, July 1, 1995), cover price $73.95

War Comes Again: Comparative Vistas on the Civil War and World War II

Stephen Ambrose, Robert V. Bruce, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and nine other eminent American historians offer illuminating comparisons of various aspects of the nation's two costliest wars, including their leaders, their destructiveness, and the American people's feelings about them. UP.

By Michael C. C. Adams, Stephen E. Ambrose, Ira Berlin (contributor) and G. Boritt (editor)

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9780195088458 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 18, 1995, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Stephen Ambrose, Robert V.

The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South

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By Ira Berlin (editor), Steven F. Miller and Joseph P. Reidy (contributor)

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9780521417426 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $185.00

Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War

Gathers first hand accounts of slavery and the efforts of Black Americans to transform the Civil War into a war to end slavery

By Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields and Steven F. Miller (contributor)

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9781565841208 | Reprint edition (New Pr, September 1, 1993), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Gathers first hand accounts of slavery and the efforts of Black Americans to transform the Civil War into a war to end slavery

Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas

Product Description: So central was labor in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for granted, with little attention given to the type of work that slaves did and the circumstances surrounding it. Cultivation and Culture brings together leading scholars of slavery- historians, anthropologists, and sociologists- to explore when, where, and how slaves labored in growing the New World's great staples and how this work shaped the institution of slavery and the lives of African-American slaves...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan (editor)

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9780813914213 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $59.50 | About this edition: So central was labor in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for granted, with little attention given to the type of work that slaves did and the circumstances surrounding it.

Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Black Life in the Americas

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By Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan (editor)

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9780813914244 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $39.50

Slaves No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil War

By Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields and Steven F. Miller

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9780521431026 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 27, 1992), cover price $52.99

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9780521436922 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1993), cover price $39.99

Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War

A collection of letters, personal testimony, transcripts, and various official records documents the effects of Emancipation on blacks and white throughout the Union.

By Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy and Rowland

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9781565840157 | New Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Gathers first hand accounts of slavery and the efforts of Black Americans to transform the Civil War into a war to end slavery

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