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

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

1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

1-4696-4837-7 (electronic bk.); 1-4696-4838-5 (electronic bk.); 978-1-4696-4837-8 (electronic bk.); 978-1-4696-4838-5 (electronic bk.)

978-1-4696-4836-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-4696-4836-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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305.896/07309034     Ähnliche Literatur

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

United States ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; HISTORY ; United States ; Civil War Period (1850-1877) ; African Americans ; Social conditions ; Slavery ; Slaves ; Emancipation ; History

"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"--

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Cover; Contents; Introduction. Phantoms of Freedom; Part I. Time; Chapter 1. Linear Chronology; Chapter 2. Recurring Seasons; Chapter 3. Revolutionary Time; Part II. Space; Chapter 4. Panoramas; Chapter 5. Confines; Chapter 6. Tremors and Whirlpools; Part III. Home; Chapter 7. Our Home and Country; Chapter 8. The Blessings of a Home; Chapter 9. The Home of the Brave; Epilogue. Illusions of Emancipation; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y