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Beyond freedom : disrupting the history of emancipation /

This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and revises our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of cons...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blight, David W. (Editor , Contribuidor), Downs, Jim, 1973- (Editor , Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Colección:Uncivil wars.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue / Eric Foner
  • Introduction / David W. Blight, Gregory P. Downs, and Jim Downs
  • From slavery to freedom. The grammar of emancipation : putting final freedom in context / Richard Newman ; Writing slavery into freedom's stories / Susan O'Donovan ; "Us never had no big funerals or weddin's on de place" : ritualizing Black marriage in the wake of freedom / Brenda E. Stevenson ; Emancipation as state building from the inside out / Chandra Manning
  • The politics of freedom. The problem of equality in the age of emancipation / Kate Masur ; When neighbors turn against neighbors : irregular warfare and the crisis of democracy in the Civil War era / Justin Behrend ; When everybody knew / James Oakes
  • Meditations on the meaning of freedom. Black women and children in the Civil War : archive notes / Thavolia Glymph ; "Cleaning up the mess" : some thoughts on freedom, violence, and grief / Carole Emberton ; In the moment of violence : writing the history of postemancipation terror / Hannah Rosen ; Emancipating the evidence : the ontology of the Freedmen's Bureau records / Jim Downs.