![]() Jones brilliantly describes life in the Georgia lowcountry-what it was like to be a slave toiling in the disease-ridden rice swamps the strivings of black entrepreneurs, slaves and free blacks alike and the bizarre intricacies of the slave-master relationship. She explains how white elites, forestalling democracy and equality, created novel political and economic strategies to maintain their stranglehold on the machinery of power, and often found unexpected allies in northern missionaries and military officials. The book captures in vivid detail the determination of former slaves to integrate themselves into the nation’s body politic and to control their own families, workplaces, churches, and schools. Jacqueline Jones, prizewinning author of the groundbreaking Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, has written a masterpiece of time and place, transporting readers to the boisterous streets of this fascinating city.ĭrawing on military records, diaries, letters, newspapers, and memoirs, Jones brings Savannah to life in all its diversity, weaving together the stories of individual men and women, bankers and dockworkers, planters and field hands, enslaved laborers and free people of color. ![]() ![]() ![]() A panoramic portrait of the city of Savannah before, during, and after the Civil War-a poignant story of the African American freedom struggle in this prosperous southern riverport, set against a backdrop of military conflict and political turmoil. ![]()
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