Slavery and freedom in Savannah /

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • The transatlantic slave trade comes to Georgia / James A. McMillin
  • "The King of England's soldiers": armed blacks in Savannah and its hinterlands during the Revolutionary War era, 1778-1787 / Timothy Lockley
  • At the intersection of cotton and commerce: antebellum Savannah and its slaves / Susan Eva O'Donovan
  • To "venerate the spot" of "airy visions": slavery and the romantic conception of place in Mary Telfair's Savannah / Jeffrey Robert Young
  • Slave life in Savannah: geographies of autonomy and control / Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry
  • Free black life in Savannah / Janice L. Sumler-Edmond
  • Wartime workers, moneymakers: Black labor in Civil War-era Savannah / Jacqueline Jones
  • "We defy you!": politics and violence in reconstruction Savannah / Jonathan M. Bryant
  • "The fighting has not been in vain": African American intellectuals in Jim Crow Savannah / Bobby J. Donaldson.