<p>In this enlightening study, Clarence L. Mohr follows the demise of chattel slavery in one state of the Confederate South. Like the slavery regime itself, Mohr&#39;s story is biracial in character, embracing the perspectives of both blacks and whites as they struggled to comprehend the approach of black freedom within a framework of attitudes and assumptions shaped by decades of mutual exposure to Georgia&#39;s peculiar institution. By exploring in detail the changing patterns of black-white interaction that preceded legal emancipation in 1865, <em>On the Threshold of Freedom</em> defines central tendencies within Georgia slavery and suggests important links between antebellum life and the events of early Reconstruction.</p>