Amanda Laury Kleintop
@alkleintop.bsky.social
Historian of US Civil War & Reconstruction, working on history and memory of enslavers' claims for compensation. First book, Counting the Cost of Freedom, forthcoming w/ UNC Press, August 2025. Public and occasional digital historian. she/they.
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Counting the Cost of Freedom
During the Civil War, the US government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminishing the white South’s wealth by nearly 50 percent. After t...
uncpress.org
August 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The book is officially out, and for 2 days you can get it and all other books for 50% off at UNC Press with code 01NEWSITE50 🎉
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Counting the Cost of Freedom by @alkleintop.bsky.social
Post–Civil War white Southerners demanded $ for enslaved people who were freed. Deeply revealing. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Post–Civil War white Southerners demanded $ for enslaved people who were freed. Deeply revealing. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Counting the Cost of Freedom | Amanda Laury Kleintop | University of North Carolina Press
During the Civil War, the US government abolished slavery without reimbursing enslavers, diminishing the white South's wealth by nearly 50 percent. After the...
uncpress.org
May 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Counting the Cost of Freedom by @alkleintop.bsky.social
Post–Civil War white Southerners demanded $ for enslaved people who were freed. Deeply revealing. uncpress.org/book/9781469...
Post–Civil War white Southerners demanded $ for enslaved people who were freed. Deeply revealing. uncpress.org/book/9781469...