Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy
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# Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History

Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy

Eric Foner
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Nothing But Freedom probes the aftermath of emancipation in the south, the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land they worked on, the men they worked for, and to the government they lived under.
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