The Meaning Of Freedom

Frank McGlynn is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg.

• The Price of Freedom - The Constraints of Change in Postemancipation America, Pieter C. Emmen; The Economic Response to Emancipation and Some Economic Aspects of the Meaning of Freedom, Stanley L. Egerman; Black Economic Entrapment After Emancipation in the United States, Jay R. Mandle; The Economics and Politics of Slavery and Freedom in the US South, Gavin Wright; The Politics of Freedom in the British Caribbean, O. Nigel Bolland; The Inconvenience of Freedom - Free People of Colour and the Political Aftermath of Slavery in Dominica and Saint Domingue/Haiti, Michel-Rolph Trouillot; Freedom and Community - The British West Indies, Jean Besson; Redefining the Moral Order - Interpretations of Christianity in Post-Emancipation Jamaica, Diane J. Austin-Broos; Panglosses and Polyannas - or Whose Reality Are We Talking About?, Sidney W. Mintz; "Race", "Class" and "Gender" in the Transition to Freedom, Raymond T. Smith; The Tragic Ear? - Interpreting Southern Reconstruction in Comparative Perspective, Peter Kolchin.

Should be of interest to all scholars of slavery and emancipation.