Description: The classic exploration of the connection between freedom and slavery, with a bold new introduction from prominent historian Annette Gordon-Reed.
Brief description: Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. The author of Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hemingses of Monticello, she lives in New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Review Quotes: A wonderful book, learned, perceptive, convincing.... Every page of Morgan's book speaks of a sensitive understanding of human nature, as well as of a scrupulous attention to scholarly exactitude.--J.H. Plumb "New York Review of Books"