First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction

by Peter Kolchin

Book by Kolchin, Peter

Genres: History

238 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Peter Robert Kolchin was an American historian. He specialized in slavery and labor in the American South before and after the Civil War, and in comparisons with Russian serfdom and other forms of labor. Kolchin won the Bancroft Prize in American History and the Avery O. Craven Award for his book Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (1987).