An award-winning historian's sweeping new interpretation of the African American experience. In...

Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising li...

Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising li...

'A Best Book of the Year' -Library Journal and BooklistUsing excerpts from the thousands of inter...

A leading historian offers a sweeping new account of the African American experience over four ce...

This 1993 volume of Freedom presents a history of the emergence of free-labor relations in differ...

Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of the 200,000 black men who fought in the Civil War, in their...

Drawn from the documentary history of emancipation that has been described as 'this generation's ...

This 1991 volume of Freedom presents a documentary history of the emergence of free-labor relatio...

So central was labour in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for gr...

Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of the 200,000 black men who fought in the Civil War, in their...