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"Slaves Without Masters" by Ira Berlin


# 20325
"Slaves Without Masters" by Ira Berlin
A critical review of the work on the lives of the freed slaves in pre-Civil War South.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages) | 1 source | 1993 United States


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"This study will examine how the freed slaves in the antebellum (pre-Civil War) South lived, worked, and interacted with the white supremacist society around them. The source for this study will be Ira Berlin's Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South.


The reality of life and work for the free Negro in the South before the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation was a mixed one: "Freedom allowed blacks to reap the rewards of their own labor, to develop a far richer social life, and to enjoy the many intangible benefits of liberty . . . Some free Negroes . . . acquired wealth and social standing. A few masterless slaves themselves became slave masters . . . Yet neither were they free. Instead, Southern free Negroes balanced precariously between abject slavery, which they rejected, and full freedom, which was..."

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"Slaves Without Masters" by Ira Berlin (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Essay-Slaves-Without-Masters-by-Ira-Berlin/20325

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""Slaves Without Masters" by Ira Berlin" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Essay-Slaves-Without-Masters-by-Ira-Berlin/20325>




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