Your tenth blogging assignment is based on your reading of Eric Foner’s Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and its Legacy, which is one of the required texts for this course. After reading the book, write a post that responds to ONE of the following questions, drawing on specific examples and evidence from the text to support your answer.

1. Foner’s book compares the post-emancipation experience of several slave societies, including in Haiti, the British West Indies, and the American South. What, if anything, did all of these post-emancipation experiences have in common?
2. According to Foner, what aspects of the American emancipation experience made it distinctive? What difference did the unique aspects of emancipation in the United States make to the fate of freedpeople?
3. Did freedpeople view sharecropping as wholly opposed to their interests? Why or why not?
4. According to Foner, what were the most important consequences of the rise of Redemption governments?

The deadline for this post is different from the usual deadline. Please complete this assignment and publish your post by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, April 10.

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