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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation

National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction · 2014 · Winner
KnopfhistorynonfictionISBN 9780307269096

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David Brion Davis completes his monumental trilogy on slavery with a study of the decades surrounding emancipation in the United States, examining the dehumanizing logic of slavery and the contested meanings of freedom. A Pulitzer Prize winner for the trilogy as a whole, this final volume won the NBCC Award for Nonfiction.

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