On the Threshold of Freedom

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"In this enlightening study, Clarence L. Mohr follows the demise of chattel slavery in one state of the Confederate South. Like the slavery regime itself, Mohr's story is biracial in character, embracing the perspectives of both blacks and whites as they struggled to comprehend the approach of black freedom within a framework of attitudes and assumptions shaped by decades of mutual exposure to Georgia's peculiar institution. By exploring in detail the changing patterns of black-white interaction that preceded legal emancipation in 1865, On the Threshold of Freedom defines central tendencies within Georgia slavery and suggests important links between antebellum life and the events of early Reconstruction."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Race relations,  Georgia Civil War, 1861-1865,  Plantation life,  United States Civil War, 1861-1865,  History,  African Americans,  Georgia, history,  United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865,  Slavery, united states, history,  Social aspects of Slavery

Places: Georgia,  United States

Times: 19th century,  Civil War, 1861-1865