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Growing up with the country : family, race, and nation after the civil war /

'Growing Up with the Country' documents the migration of freedom's first generation out of the South and into the West after the Civil War. A narrative history, the text traces three of the author's ancestors and their successive migrations in the half-century after emancipation.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Field, Kendra Taira (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Collection:Lamar series in western history.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One: "Intruder of Color": Freedom, Sovereignty, and Kinship in Indian Territory
  • Two: Passing for Black: White Kinfolk, "Mulatto" Freedpeople, and Westward Migration
  • Three: "He Dreamed of Africa": Kinship, Class, and Peoplehood
  • Four: "No Such Thing as Stand Still": The Chief Sam Movement and the "African Pioneers"
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index