A sequel to the award-winning Free at Last that includes moving letters from freed enslaved people to their families Drawn from the work of award-winning Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland,
Families and Freedom tells the story of the remaking of the black family during the tumultuous years of the Civil War era. Through the dramatic and moving letters and testimony of freed enslaved persons, the documents in
Families and Freedom provide deep insight into the most intimate aspects of the transformation of captives to free people. This book is the sequel to the 1994 Lincoln Prize winner
Free at Last, which was described in the
New York Times as "this generation's most significant encounter with the American past."
| Author: Ira Berlin |
| Publisher: New Press |
| Publication Date: Aug 01, 1998 |
| Number of Pages: 304 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1565844408 |
| ISBN-13: 9781565844407 |
