Becoming Free In the Cotton South
by Susan Eva O'Donovan
Mass. Harvard. 2007. 1st Hardcover Edition. 364pp. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.
Becoming Free in the Cotton South challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or the ending of the story, as most histories do, explores the perilous transition between these two conditions.
