THE NATHAN I. HUGGINS LECTURES
Cover: The Long Emancipation: The Demise of Slavery in the United States, from Harvard University PressCover: The Long Emancipation in HARDCOVER

The Long Emancipation

The Demise of Slavery in the United States

  • Introduction
  • 1. The Near-Century-Long Demise of Slavery
  • 2. Sounding the Egalitarian Clarion
  • 3. The Bloody Struggle Endures
  • Coda: Free at Last
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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