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Title:

Rethinking American emancipation : legacies of slavery and the quest for Black freedom / edited by William A. Link, University of Florida, James J. Broomall, Shepherd University.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xvi, 275 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Slaves--Emancipation--United States.
African Americans--History--19th century.
United States--History--History--19th century.
African Americans--Social conditions--19th century.
Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.
African Americans.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Race relations.
Slaves--Emancipation.
Social conditions.
Southern States.
United States.
1800 - 1899
History.

Other Authors:

Link, William A., editor.
Broomall, James J., editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Epilogue: Emancipation and the nation / Laura F. Edwards. 9. Claiming Emancipation: 1. Bodies in motion and the making of emancipation / Yael A. Sternhell; 2. Force, freedom, and the making of emancipation / Gregory P. Downs; 3. Military interference in elections as an influence on abolition / William A. Blair -- Part II. Contesting Emancipation: 4. "One pillar of the social fabric may still stand firm": border south marriages in the emancipation era / Allison Fredette; 5. Axes of empire: race, region, and the "greater reconstruction" of federal authority after emancipation / Carole Emberton; 6. Fear of reenslavement: Black political mobilization in response to the waning of Reconstruction / Justin Behrend -- Part III. Remembering Emancipation: 7. African Americans and the long emancipation in new south Atlanta / William A. Link; 8. Washington, Toussaint, and Bolivar: the glorious advocates of liberty': Black internationalism and reimagining emancipation / Paul Ortiz; 9. Remembering the abolitionists and the meanings of freedom / John Stauffer -- Epilogue: Emancipation and the nation / Laura F. Edwards.

Series:

Cambridge studies on the American South

ISBN:

1107421349
9781107421349
1107073030
9781107073036

OCLC:

(OCoLC)918940730

LCCN:

2015026743

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)