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Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History) by [Eric Foner, Steven Hahn]

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Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

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Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land they worked on, to the men they worked for, and to the government they lived under. Taking a comparative approach, Eric Foner examines Reconstruction in the southern states against the experience of Haiti, where a violent slave revolt was followed by the establishment of an undemocratic government and the imposition of a system of forced labor; the British Caribbean, where the colonial government oversaw an orderly transition from slavery to the creation of an almost totally dependent work force; and early twentieth-century southern and eastern Africa, where a self-sufficient peasantry was dispossessed in order to create a dependent black work force. Measuring the progress of freedmen in the post--Civil War South against that of freedmen in other recently emancipated societies, Foner reveals Reconstruction to have been, despite its failings, a unique and dramatic experiment in interracial democracy in the aftermath of slavery. Steven Hahn's timely new foreword places Foner's analysis in the context of recent scholarship and assesses its enduring impact in the twenty-first century.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ LSU Press; 1st edition (September 1, 2007)
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Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, where he earned his B.A. and Ph.D. In his teaching and scholarship, Foner focuses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America. His "Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877," won the Bancroft, Parkman, and Los Angeles Times Book prizes and remains the standard history of the period. In 2006 Foner received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching at Columbia University. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Society of American Historians. He is currently writing a book on Lincoln and slavery.

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david scudder

Foner and comparative emancipation

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 9, 2013

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Foner's work is, of course, an excellent, if brief, summary of comparative research on emancipation. He shows, without doubt, that the same sorts of issues and struggles were faced whenever emancipation happened in the Americas. Former slaves wanted similar things, and planters, who largely remained planters, wanted similar things no matter where an emancipation event happened.

Still, this similarity in the struggles of former slaves and planters creates a certain jaundiced view for Foner. It is not quite a pessimistic view. It does though make Foner suspicious of the literature which heralds Lincoln as the great emancipator. Since no other societies made blacks at the time fully liberated in any sense, Foner doubts that Lincoln could have either, or even that he wanted to. In that lies Foner's suspicion too of American exceptionalism. America failed to make emancipation real just like the other societies that experienced emancipation revolutions.

That said, I believe Foner does not give full credence to just how close the US came and how devestating a blow was the death of Lincoln. To paraphrase one freedman whom Foner quotes in another of his books, it sure caused a problem when Lincoln got killed.

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sistalinda

Loved it.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 14, 2010

I had to read this for my history class at Columbia. Foner was a colleague of my professor. Loved it. 5 stars.

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Not great

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 27, 2013

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Foner's loose Marxist interpretation of Emancipation leaves much to be desired. This can be forgiven because the chapters are really lectures and the workings of what would become a book. Although the book is well organized and well written and the tales of economics and class are slightly compelling they leave a lot of holes behind, and a lot to be desired and the finished product feels incomplete.

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Kimberly Kunker

Good Comparative Analysis

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 15, 2012

"Nothing but Freedom" is a short book written by Eric Foner about Reconstruction. The book is composed of three essays, which are titled: The Anatomy of Emancipation, the Politics of Freedom, and the Emancipated Worker. The title phrase comes from an 1865 comment from an eyewitness to Emancipation, "The emancipated slaves own nothing, because nothing but freedom has been given to them."

Foner takes this quote and uses it as the thesis of the book. He focuses on the radical changes which occurred during American Reconstruction, and how different it was from similar situations elsewhere in the world. Foner compares the American experience to those in Haiti, the British Caribbean, and south eastern Africa. The first chapter is a case study comparison. The other chapters cover the unique American approach to emancipation and the 1876 strikes in South Carolina and Georgia on rice plantations. The differences between black controlled South Carolina and Democrat "Redeemed" Georgia are clearly illustrated. In areas where Blacks managed to gain and retain political power they had much more freedom and autonomy than in areas where they were reduced to almost slavery-like conditions and poverty due to low wages and the whims of the planter. A good quick read about the American emancipation process.

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Andy F.

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 23, 2000

Foner dilligently attempts to describe post-slavery America and Carribean Islands. Bravo Eric!