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David Roediger, Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All (London: Verso, 2014, £16.99). Pp. 230. isbn978 1 7816 8609 6.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2016

LORENZO COSTAGUTA
LORENZO COSTAGUTA*
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , February 2016 , pp. 261 - 263
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1 Roediger mentions a roundtable organized by Historical Materialism, 19, 4 (2011)Google Scholar, on slavery and the Civil War, where Ashworth's argument is debated, but still does not refer to Ashworth's argument directly. For an extended exposition of Ashworth's theories, see John Ashworth, Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995–2007).