Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom, and the Civil War.Since the Great Depression, when the Works Progress Administration Works Progress Administration: see Work Projects Administration. temporarily employed struggling writers to compile the memories of exslaves, there has been no shortage of testimony from this historical period. But Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery The history of slavery covers many different forms of human exploitation across many cultures and throughout human history. Slavery, generally defined, refers to the systematic exploitation of labor for work and services without consent and/or the possession of other persons as , Freedom, and the Civil War introduces fresh documents from former slaves, giving the experience a jarring immediacy im·me·di·a·cy n. pl. im·me·di·a·cies 1. The condition or quality of being immediate. 2. Lack of an intervening or mediating agency; directness: the immediacy of live television coverage. . The fourth volume in a Freedmen and Southern Society Project series, Free at Last distills the previous volumes and reprises REPRISES. The deductions and payments out of lands, annuities, and the like, are called reprises, because they are taken back; when we speak of the clear yearly value of an estate, we say it is worth so much a year ultra reprises, besides all reprises. 2. telling documents. The authors do a remarkable job of providing an informative--and often chilling--portrait of a terrible time in our nation's history. |
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