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North of Slavery; The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860

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Title: North of Slavery; The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860
by Leon F. Litwack
ISBN: 0-226-48586-2
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date: April, 1965
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $15.00
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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: A seminal, path-breaking book
Comment: North of Slavery marked the first comprehensive scholarly effort to explore the meaning of race in the northern states before the Civil War. It many ways, it remains -- almost forty years after its publication -- the single best starting point for examining the lives of Northern free blacks. It focuses on a region traditionally neglected by other studies of race relations, a problem being rectified in the scholarship only now. Challenging the myth of the North as a bastion of racial liberalism, Litwack portrays a North beset by segregation, racial pogrom, legal stricture, and -- above all -- a system of informal proscription which rendered black people there anything but "free." Written during the early stages of the Civil Rights Movement, the book had a chilling and prophetic understanding of the struggles which would confront the CRM as it moved out of the South and into the nation. North of Slavery was, and still is, a stunning antidote to the attitudes of those who tell themselves "it doesn't happen here." As is his style, Litwack peppers his history liberally with compelling first-hand accounts; the writing is exceptional: clean, hard-hitting, dark, compelling, and courageous.

Rating: 3
Summary: Average
Comment: Nothing very special about this book. It was more of an encyclopedia rather than a history book. Leon F. Litwack failed to state his opinions which most history books contain. There isn't nothing else to write about since it was just like an encyclopedia but with more words. There is interesting facts here though. If readers are interested in the life of slavery before the civil war, this is the right book for you.

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