Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery

Title: Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
Author: Leon F Litwack
ISBN: 0394743989
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 1980
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Thus
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
American History: 1691713
Section: Social Science | Cultural & Ethnic Studies | American - African American & Black Studies
Publisher Description: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in "the peculiar institution."

Contents
1. "The Faithful Slave"
2. Black Liberators
3. Kingdom Comin'
4. Slaves No More
5. How Free is Free?
6. The Feel of Freedom: Moving About
7. Back to Work: The Old Compulsions
8. Back to Work: The New Dependency
9. The Gospel and the Primer
10. Becoming a People