Emancipation's diaspora : race and reconstruction in the upper Midwest /
Most studies of emancipation's consequences have focused on the South. This book follows the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery; made their way to overwhelmingly white communities in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin; and worked to live in dig...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2009]
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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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.