Slavery's Ghost: The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation ed. by Richard Follett, Eric Foner, and Walter Johnson

JB Morris - Civil War History, 2013 - muse.jhu.edu
Gary Nash further illuminates the contours of Early Republic debates over black citizenship
by chronicling the shifting views of two prominent antislavery Philadelphians. While black …

Slavery's Ghost: The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation

JB Morris - Civil War History, 2013 - pdcnet.org
Douglass's biting observation from 1870 that “slavery has left its poison behind... both in the
veins of the slaves and those of the enslaver.” The “settled habits of a nation,” he concluded …