Been in the Storm So Long (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardBased on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves diaries and accounts by former slaveholders this rich and admirably written book (Eugene Genovese The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how during the Civil War and after Emancipation blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in the peculiar institution. Contents1. The Faithful Slave2. Black Liberators3. Kingdom Comin''4. Slaves No More5. How Free is Free?6. The Feel of Freedom: Moving About7. Back to Work: The Old Compulsions8. Back to Work: The New Dependency9. The Gospel and the Primer10. Becoming a People