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Title: Been in the Storm So Long. The Aftermath of Slavery.
Description: London, The Athlone Press, 1980. hardcover with dustjacket, XVI, 651 pp.. (based on primary sources like diaries, contemporary interviews and eye-witness accounts the author sketches the direct aftermath of the abolition of slavery in the South; its implications for the freedman trying to establish a new life and earn a living, their expectations, hopes and new insights into the white man's vulnerability, as well the reactions of the white plantation owners now in search for new laborers and the promulgation of new laws in order to compel the blacks to labour on the plantations, preferabily by contracts, and trying to prevent them to exchange the countryside for urban settlements) ISBN: 0485112183

Keywords: history, U.S.A., 0485112183

Price: EUR 12.00 = appr. US$ 13.04 Seller: Antiquariaat Academia
- Book number: 9651

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