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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. 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
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.