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ISBN: | 9780817380830 0817380833 9780817311834 0817311831 0817302573 9780817302573
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Digital file characteristics: | text file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-185) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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Summary: | This is the first book-length work on wartime race relations in Tennessee, and it stresses the differences within the slave community as well as Military Governor Andrew Johnson's role in emancipation. In Tennessee a significant number of slaves took advantage of the disruptions resulting from federal invasion to escape servitude and to seek privileges enjoyed by whites. Some rushed into theses changes, believing God had ordained them; others acted simply from a willingness to seize any opportunity for improving their lot. Both groups felt a sense of dignity that their slaves initi.
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Other form: | Print version: Cimprich, John, 1949- Slavery's end in Tennessee, 1861-1865. University, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1985 0817302573 9780817302573
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