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Illusions of emancipation : the pursuit of freedom and equality in the twilight of slavery / Joseph P. Reidy

Reidy, Joseph P., 1948- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press [[2019]], [2019]

506 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 25 cm

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-489) and index

978-1-4696-4836-1 (cloth)

978-1-4696-4837-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2018024859

OCoLC: 1099893818     

E441

305.896/07309034     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte> ; 71.62 (Ethnische Beziehungen)

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

*USA ; Abolitionismus ; Sezessionskrieg <1861-1865> ; Sklaverei ; Abschaffung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Geschichte     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States -- History ; Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century ; African Americans -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century

"There are many controversies and chronic misconceptions surrounding the idea of emancipation in the nineteenth-century United States. Much recent scholarship has sought to address these misconceptions ... Reidy further enriches and complicates our understanding of emancipation in the context of the Civil War. Drawing us back to testimonies of participants and contemporary witnesses of the era and synthesizing the perspectives of subsequent observers, Reidy reveals emancipation as a long, messy process, with contingencies that clustered around the categories of time, place, and person ... Reidy's thematic approach allows him to shed new light on the wide-ranging and diverse expressions and experiences of freedom as it came suddenly, slowly, or not at all"--