Slavery and freedom in Savannah / edited by Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry.

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2014.

xxi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 21 cm

1. The transatlantic slave trade comes to Georgia / James A. McMillin -- 2. "The King of England's soldiers": armed blacks in Savannah and its hinterlands during the Revolutionary War era, 1778-1787 / Timothy Lockley -- 3. At the intersection of cotton and commerce: antebellum Savannah and its slaves / Susan Eva O'Donovan -- 4. To "venerate the spot" of "airy visions": slavery and the romantic conception of place in Mary Telfair's Savannah / Jeffrey Robert Young -- 5. Slave life in Savannah: geographies of autonomy and control / Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry -- 6. Free black life in Savannah / Janice L. Sumler-Edmond -- 7. Wartime workers, moneymakers: Black labor in Civil War-era Savannah / Jacqueline Jones -- 8. "We defy you!": politics and violence in reconstruction Savannah / Jonathan M. Bryant -- 9. "The fighting has not been in vain": African American intellectuals in Jim Crow Savannah / Bobby J. Donaldson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.