The Testimony of Henry Adams, Freedman
Hope, Terror, and Exodus in the Post-Civil War South
$52.78
- Hardcover
286 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2026
Summary
An extraordinary American hero travels to the nation’s capital to tell an unforgettable story of violence, resistance, and social action in the post-Civil War South.
For Black History Month, the never-before-published testimony with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn.
In March 1880 a committee of the U.S. Senate investigating the ongoing “Negro Exodus” from the South heard two days of testimony from an extraordinary American. A freedman, former sol…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598538366 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598538365 |
| Author: | Henry Adams, Steven Hahn |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 286 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 145mm x 216mm |
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Henry Adams
Henry Adams
Born into slavery in Georgia in 1843, Henry Adams was brought to Louisiana at age seven. Emancipated in June 1865, he learned to read and write while serving in the army. In 1869 Adams settled in Caddo Parish and worked as a wood cutter, mill operator, and sometime plantation manager. He also became active in “the committee,” a secretive group of Black workingmen dedicated to learning “the true condition of our race.” There is no record of him after 1884.
Steven Hahn
Steven Hahn is professor of history at New York University and the author of A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910 (2016) and Illiberal America: A History (2024). His book A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (2003) was awarded the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes.
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