{"product_id":"the-long-emancipation","title":"The Long Emancipation","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Long Emancipation\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eIra Berlin\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780674986558\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHarvard University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2018\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e240\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps no event in American history arouses more impassioned debate than the abolition of slavery. Answers to basic questions about who ended slavery, how, and why remain fiercely contested more than a century and a half after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment. In \u003ci\u003eThe Long Emancipation\u003c\/i\u003e, Ira Berlin draws upon decades of study to offer a framework for understanding slavery's demise in the United States. Freedom was not achieved in a moment, and emancipation was not an occasion but a near-century-long process--a shifting but persistent struggle that involved thousands of men and women. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ira Berlin ranks as one of the greatest living historians of slavery in the United States... \u003ci\u003eThe Long Emancipation\u003c\/i\u003e offers a useful reminder that abolition was not the charitable work of respectable white people, or not mainly that. Instead, the demise of slavery was made possible by the constant discomfort inflicted on middle-class white society by black activists. And like the participants in today's Black Lives Matter movement, Berlin has not forgotten that the history of slavery in the United States--especially the history of how slavery ended--is never far away when contemporary Americans debate whether their nation needs to change.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Edward E. Baptist, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"The Long Emancipation | Ira Berlin | Paperback | 9780674986558 | New | American History 1557204","offer_id":50579135430914,"sku":"1557204","price":35.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71ADiode-uL.jpg?v=1790958999","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/the-long-emancipation","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}