Format:
1 online resource (400 pages)
ISBN:
9780807894125
Content:
Most studies of emancipation's consequences have focused on the South. Moving the discussion to the North, Leslie Schwalm enriches our understanding of the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom. Emancipation's Diaspora follows the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery, made their way to overwhelmingly white communities in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and worked to live in dignity as free women and men and as citizens.Schwalm explores the hotly contested politics of black enfranchisement as well as collisions over segregation, civil rights, and the more informal politics of race--including how slavery and emancipation would be remembered and commemorated. She examines how gender shaped the politics of race, and how gender relations were contested and negotiated within the black community. Based on extensive archival research, Emancipation's Diaspora shows how in churches and schools, in voting booths and Masonic temples, in bustling cities and rural crossroads, black and white Midwesterners--women and men--shaped the local and national consequences of emancipation.
Content:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: ''A Full Realization of the Barbarities of Slavery'' -- CHAPTER TWO: ''A Time of Scattering'' -- CHAPTER THREE: ''Overrun with Free Negroes'': The Politics of Wartime Emancipation and Migration in the Upper Midwest -- CHAPTER FOUR: ''To Go and Help Be Free'': Migration and the Black Military Experience -- CHAPTER FIVE: ''The Building Up of Our Race'': Creating a Life in Freedom -- CHAPTER SIX: ''Freedom Was All They Had:" Civil Rights and Northern Reconstruction -- CHAPTER SEVEN: ''Agonizing Groans of Mothers'' and ''Slave-Scarred Veterans'': History, Commemoration, and Memoir in the Aftermath of Slavery -- Epilogue -- 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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780807859506
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780807859506
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=475203
