- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: WW Norton; New edition edition (Oct 20 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1565840283
- ISBN-13: 978-1565840287
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 526 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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The New Republic
Slaves Without Masters rates with the best, for it combines careful scholarship, acute analysis, and an admirable historical imagination.
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Slaves Without Masters is a vivid and moving history of the quarter of a million free blacks who lived in the South before the Civil War. First published to great acclaim in 1974, Slaves Without Masters established Ira Berlin as one of the outstanding historians of African American life in slavery and freedom. It traces the lives of free black men and women, portraying their struggle for community, liberty, economic independence, and education within an oppressive society.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
great book with lots of well researched facts,
By s stone (anaheim, CA. United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Slaves Without Masters (Paperback)
I guess I am not reading the same book as the other guy. I saw this book as well written, well reasearched, relevant and extremely factual. Berlin's entire book is based on nothing but facts, and he has tons of sources that he refered to. He hs a lot of great refrences, old news papers(which are interesting to read), cogress meeting records, the laws of that time, the census, and lots of other great forms of accurate facts. "Slaves Without Masters" exposed a lot about a time period in american life that was very interesting for a "free" African-American. The book is about the free negroes in the antebellem south, which in most southern states were between 60 and 80 percent of the "free" African-American population, this would explain why we hear a lot in this book about Mulattos. THE MAIN BENEFIT OF THIS BOOK IS THAT IN A DOCUMENT PROVEN AND FACTUAL WAY, EVEN "FREE" PEOPLE CAN BE SLAVES.
3.0 out of 5 stars
The Title Should be "The Free Mulatto",
By A.D. Powell (United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Slaves Without Masters (Paperback)
Berlin is dishonest when he claims to be writing about blacks. About 75% of "free colored" in the antebellum period were visibly mixed-race or whiter. Some "mulattoes" were Indians with no African ancestry at all.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
great book with lots of well researched facts,
By s stone - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Slaves Without Masters (Paperback)
I guess I am not reading the same book as the other guy. I saw this book as well written, well reasearched, relevant and extremely factual. Berlin's entire book is based on nothing but facts, and he has tons of sources that he refered to. He hs a lot of great refrences, old news papers(which are interesting to read), cogress meeting records, the laws of that time, the census, and lots of other great forms of accurate facts. "Slaves Without Masters" exposed a lot about a time period in american life that was very interesting for a "free" African-American. The book is about the free negroes in the antebellem south, which in most southern states were between 60 and 80 percent of the "free" African-American population, this would explain why we hear a lot in this book about Mulattos. THE MAIN BENEFIT OF THIS BOOK IS THAT IN A DOCUMENT PROVEN AND FACTUAL WAY, EVEN "FREE" PEOPLE CAN BE SLAVES.
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