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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Georgia :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2017]
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| 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.