The American Civil War destroyed slavery in the South ... This volume of Freedom presents a documentary record of the transformation of the Civil War into a war against slavery, and the slaves' role ...

In the summer of 1900, much of America was on the move. Advances in technology and a rise in the standard of living had introduced a concept that was previously foreign to the American middle ...

This volume of Freedom presents a documentary history of the emergence of free-labor ... the series to its halfway point and makes another contribution to the study of American labor and social ...