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After Slavery : Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South /

This book moves beyond broad generalizations concerning Black life during Reconstruction in order to address the varied experiences of freed slaves across the South. This collection examines urban unrest in New Orleans and Wilmington, North Carolina, loyalty among former slave owners and slaves in M...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kelly, Brian, 1958-, Baker, Bruce E., 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Bruce E. Baker and Brian Kelly
  • Slave and citizen in the modern world : rethinking emancipation in the twenty-first century / Thomas C. Holt
  • "Erroneous and incongruous notions of liberty" : urban unrest and the origins of radical reconstruction in New Orleans, 1865-1868 / James Illingworth
  • "Surrounded on all sides by an armed and brutal mob" : newspapers, politics, and law in the Ogeechee Insurrection, 1868-1869 / Jonathan M. Bryant
  • "It looks much like abandoned land" : property and the politics of loyalty in reconstruction Mississippi / Erik Mathisen
  • Anarchy at the circumference : statelessness and the reconstruction of authority in emancipation North Carolina / Gregory P. Downs
  • "The negroes are no longer slaves" : free Black families, free labor, and racial violence in post-emancipation Kentucky / J. Michael Rhyne
  • Ex-slaveholders and the Ku Klux Klan : exploring the motivations of terrorist violence / Michael W. Fitzgerald
  • Drovers, distillers, and democrats : economic and political change in Northern Greenville County, 1865-1878 / Bruce E. Baker
  • Mapping freedom's terrain : the political and productive landscapes of Wilmington, North Carolina / Susan Eva O'Donovan
  • Class, factionalism, and the radical retreat : Black laborers and the Republican Party in South Carolina, 1865-1900 / Brian Kelly
  • Afterword / Eric Foner.