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Author:

Bell, Karen Cook, author.

Title:

Claiming freedom : race, kinship, and land in nineteenth-century Georgia / Karen Cook Bell.

Publisher:

University of South Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xii, 161 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Subject:

Reconstruction (United States : 1865-1877)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Georgia.
African Americans--Georgia--Economic conditions--19th century.
Land tenure--Georgia--History--19th century.
African Americans--Georgia--History--19th century.
African Americans--Race identity--Georgia.
Rice trade--Georgia--History.
Georgia--Economic conditions--19th century.
African Americans.
African Americans--Economic conditions.
African Americans--Race identity.
Economic history.
Land tenure.
Rice trade.
Georgia.
United States.
HISTORY / African American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
1800-1899
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [101]-148) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Claiming Freedom in the Lowcountry -- 1. The Slave's Dream -- 2. War and Freedom -- 3. "Full and Fair Compensation" -- 4. The State of Freedom is the State of Self-Reliance -- Conclusion.

Summary:

Claiming Freedom is a noteworthy and dynamic analysis of the transition African Americans experienced as they emerged from Civil War slavery, struggled through emancipationm and then forged on to become landowners in the Georgia lowcountry during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction period. Karen Cook Bell's work is a bold study of the political and social struggles of these individuals as they strived for and claimed freedom--back cover.

ISBN:

1611178304
9781611178302

OCLC:

(OCoLC)974612700

LCCN:

2017008059

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)