The Price of Freedom: Slavery and the Civil War, Volume 2--The Preservation of Liberty

By Martin H. Greenberg

Book Overview

The Price of Freedom is a two-volume anthology of forty-eight articles addressing the political, social, and military aspects of slavery and the Civil War. This volume, The Preservation of Liberty, addresses the extraordinary implications of the conflict for African-American communities in the North and in the South and the opportunities borne of the war by which African-Americans, as citizens of the republic, demonstrated their desires and abilities to participate in the society and the country that emerged from the cauldron of conflict.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581820917
• ISBN13: 9781581820911
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"