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Emancipation's Diaspora : Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest /

Most studies of emancipation's consequences have focused on the South. Moving the discussion to the North, Leslie Schwalm enriches our understanding of the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom. Emancipation's Diaspora follows the lives and experiences of thousands of m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A full realization of the barbarities of slavery
  • A time of scattering
  • Overrun with free Negroes: the politics of wartime emancipation and
  • Migration in the upper Midwest
  • To go and help be free: migration and the black military experience
  • The building up of our race: creating a life in freedom
  • Freedom was all they had: civil rights and northern reconstruction
  • Agonizing groans of mothers and slave-scarred veterans: history
  • Commemoration, and memoir in the aftermath of slavery.