While volumes, too many to count, cover every minute of every Civil War battle, much less is written on the aftermath.
History I never knew, stories I could not believe.
Or were they?Required reading for any hope of understanding slavery in the US South.
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Dean Greg Sterling issued the following statement today about the death of YDS faculty member Yolanda Smith. Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery is a 1979 book by American historian Leon Litwack, published by Knopf.
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But, for example, Chapter 2 is all about the impressment of blacks into the army, and according to my Kindle it will take over an hour to read. But, for example, Chapter 2 is all about the impressment of blacks into the army, and according to my Kindle it will take over an hour to read. This is an exceptionally well done, if almost overly thorough, historical depiction of the responses by Black and white Americans in the South to the end of slavery.
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From Been in the Storm So Long: A Litany Of Restoration.
Although the former slaves hoped that their freedom would come with land, they were disappointed: as the Federal government gave away millions of acres to the railroads, it left the vast majority of plantations with their antebellum owners, who told the freedmen that their lives should continue as before, whippings and all, and if they didn't like it, they were free to leave. —
The Confederacy did not recognize blacks as legitimate prisoners of war, and either (re-)enslaved or massacred them; black soldiers wereThere are many books on American slavery; this book is about how it ended. My deepest admiration goes to this writer.Been in the Storm So Long is a history of the aftermath of slavery in the U.S.
The only thing more magical than reading this book is having Dr. Litwack read the primary documents contained in it. The author ignored a trove of slave narratives to repeatedly engage with official period media reports, political statements, letters etc. The book garnered all three of the major history awards in 1980/1981.Been in the Storm So Long is a history of the aftermath of slavery in the U.S.
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Some people thought that now that blacks were free and could keep their earnings, they would work hard and make all the money they could; the opposite proved to be the case. I don’t know of another book that covers this period as thoroughly, but it is in need of an update.
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The voices of the Blacks are especially noteworthy, because so seldom heard. Highly recommended for anI was looking for a filler class to take from my otherwise science-filled class schedule in college. The Confederacy did not recognize blacks as legitimate prisoners of war, and either (re-)enslaved or massacred them; black soldiers were aware of it, and fought all the harder.
Instead, what ensued was poverty, deprivation,fear, panic, raised hopes and unrealized dreams.This book covers only 2 years of the post war period, but the themes for all that we have endured as a polarized society were sown then. This technique delivers not just a tremendous amount of important information but also a nuanced account of the baffling and horrific human experience of slavery.
If you care about the aftermath of the Civil War in the South, and want first-hand accounts of the experience of freed slaves and those who helped and resisted them, this is your book.
—...By Dr. Yolanda Y. Smith and Dr. Moses N. Moore, Jr. ‘77 M.Div.
I wish I could finish this book, but it's far too in-depth for me. Over 186,000 black men, 10% of the total, served in the Union Army, which remained segregated for another century, into the Korean War.
The voices of the Blacks are especially noteworthy, because so seldom heard.
Given where I'm at in my life (reading for pleasure), I just can't get my head that into this subject in such detail.
The grotesque and obstinate projections by slaveholders of the supposed satisfactions, but also the lurking threat, of their slaves aptly shows the fierceness of their internal denialThis is an admirable work of evidence-based history, presenting the aftermath of the Civil War in the words of the people, black and white, who lived it.