… free will and independence under slavery and emancipation or the extent to which a “slave …
of slavery and the “problem of freedom.” For the recently emancipated, the “problem” was to …

… problem of slavery in Western culture with a powerful and provocative analysis of the … on
"The Problem of Slavery" this volume was preceded by The Problem of Slavery in Western …

… emancipation and the ensuing “problem of freedom.” For African Americans, the “problem” …
limited the possible meanings of “freedom,” even in the so-called age of emancipation. …

… Slavery's Ghost draws together three thoughtful contributions by prominent historians of US
slavery and emancipation in an … about the limits to African American freedom and autonomy. …

… life-and-death issues of our times. In addition to the color line, the problem of the twenty-first …
The laws and policies that, together, we call “emancipation” transformed abolitionist ideas …

… the material conditions that worked to limit their freedom and behavior. Slavery's Ghost
advances our understandings of nineteenth-century freedom in new and challenging ways. It …

… The perfect slave gives up the ghost and commends its … The emancipation of man is the
emancipation of labor and … to prohibit slavery but unfortunately compromised the issue on the …

… respond to the promise and reality of emancipation? How committed were white southerners
to … of enslaved and free Americans during slavery and Reconstruction? Collectively, these …

… forged a degree of personal freedom in their everyday worlds. The concise and elegant
Slavery's Ghost: The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation chal lenges scholars to …

… of the Emancipation Proclamation; I … issue that has shaped our country's history and identity
has been race, and in complex ways, slavery has become synonymous with race as slavery …