Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South, Ira Berlin (pape

Description: Widely recognized as "one of the nation's foremost scholars on the slave era" (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prize–winning historian Ira Berlin has changed the way we think about African American life in slavery and freedom. First published to great acclaim in 1974, Slaves Without Masters established Berlin in his field and went on to win the National History Society's Best First Book Prize. It tells the moving story of the quarter of a million free black men and women who lived in the South before the Civil War, portraying "with careful scholarship, acute analysis, and admirable historical imagination" (The New Republic) their struggle for community, economic independence, and education within an oppressive society. Review (2014, 5stars): An important book to add to your collection about slavery. This book should be on the "must read" literature for any Black History class. Well researched and cited with facts, leaving the author's personal twists and biases out of the work. It challenges the current perception that ALL Blacks in America were from a system of slavery without any strengths. It decimates the current hypothesis that slavery and its inception is based on an evil called racism. It brings to light that there were Negroes in the colonies 150 years before the American Revolution and an economical/labor focus system evolved to economically ensure that the colonies thrive because failure literally meant death. I recommend laying your foundation about Black race relations with this powerful subject matter with the Preface and Prologue section. Also have your highlighter ready because you will be introduced to the "caste" system instead of the Critical Race Theory stating that slavery is because the colonials were racists. This book is very important for someone collecting scholarly work in this area.

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