Roger
L. Ransom and Richard Sutch, One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of
Emancipation
(C) 1977 Columbia University Press
A
thorough dissection of the slow movement from slavery to repression to
something more likely to be described as freedom. Their conclusions are still a bit optimistic
by the extent to which economic and political equality have been achieved. They conclude: "Today, little remains to
remind Americans of pose-emancipation economic institutions [legal restrictions
on property ownership; explicit refusal to provide educational opportunities;”etc.—DAC]. But they do conclude as of the 1970s that
"The promise of freedom and equality that accompanies Emancipation remains
as yet unfulfilled despite the apse of more than a century. Surely the time has finally come to make good
on this promise'
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