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

Link, William A. [Herausgeber] ; Broomall, James J. [Herausgeber]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016

1 online resource (xvi, 275 pages)

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Feb 2016)

Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-107-07303-6 (Print); 978-1-107-42134-9 (Print); 978-1-139-68099-8 (Online)

978-1-107-07303-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 956320420     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/CBO9781139680998

E453

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

Slaves ; Emancipation ; United States ; African Americans ; History ; 19th century ; African Americans ; Social conditions ; 19th century ; United States ; Race relations ; History ; 19th century ; Southern States ; Social conditions ; 19th century

On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, an event that soon became a bold statement of presidential power, a dramatic shift in the rationale for fighting the Civil War, and a promise of future freedom for four million enslaved Americans. But the document marked only a beginning; freedom's future was anything but certain. Thereafter, the significance of both the Proclamation and of emancipation assumed new and diverse meanings, as African Americans explored freedom and the nation attempted to rebuild itself. Despite the sweeping power of Lincoln's Proclamation, struggle, rather than freedom, defined emancipation's broader legacy. The nine essays in this volume unpack the long history and varied meanings of the emancipation of American slaves. Together, the contributions argue that 1863 did not mark an end point or a mission accomplished in black freedom; rather, it initiated the beginning of an ongoing, contested process