ISBN:
9781666905717
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 191 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
New studies in Southern history
Uniform Title:
Dying free
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Towle, Ashley, 1987- African Americans, death, and the new birth of freedom
DDC:
305.896/073075
Keywords:
1861-1877 (Periode des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs und die Ära des Wiederaufbaus)
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19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.)
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c 1800 to c 1900
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African Americans Funeral customs and rites
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African Americans Death
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African Americans Social life and customs 19th century
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Amerikanische Geschichte
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Black & Asian studies
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HIS056000
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HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
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HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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History of the Americas
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Social & cultural history
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Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
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United States History Civil War, 1861-1865
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Casualties
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Southern States Race relations 19th century
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History
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USA
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Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA
Abstract:
"In this study the author examines how, in the Civil War-era South, newly freed African Americans used their experiences with death from war, disease, and racial violence to advance their own understanding of the meaning of freedom and to stake claims to citizenship, civil rights, and racial justice from the federal government"--
Abstract:
This innovative book examines how African Americans in the South made sense of the devastating loss of life unleashed by the Civil War and emancipation. During and after the war, African Americans died in vast numbers from battle, disease, and racial violence. While freedom was a momentous event for the formerly enslaved, it was also deadly. Through an investigation into how African Americans reacted to and coped with the passing away of loved ones and community members, Ashley Towle argues that freedpeople gave credence to their free status through their experiences with mortality. African Americans harnessed the power of death in a variety of arenas, including within the walls of national and private civilian cemeteries, in applications for widows' pensions, in the pulpits of black churches, around seance tables, on the witness stand at congressional hearings, and in the columns of African American newspapers. In the process of mourning the demise of kith and kin, black people reconstituted their families, forged communal bonds, and staked claims to citizenship, civil rights, and racial justice from the federal government. In a society upended by civil war and emancipation, death was political
Description / Table of Contents:
"Let's go to buryin'" : African American civilian funerals and cemeteries in freedom -- "To repose with their comrades" : African Americans and the creation of national cemeteries -- "The widows and families of the heroic dead" : African American kinship and domestic economy -- "The invisible army" : African American religious life and death -- "We are killed all the day long" : testifying and writing about death -- Conclusion: "In the cold valley and shadow of the South land."
Note:
Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Maryland, 2017, titled Dying free : African Americans, death, and the new birth of freedom, 1863-1877
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Zielgruppe: 5PB-US-C, Bezug zu Afro-Amerikanern (5PB-US-C)
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Interessenniveau: 06, Professional and scholarly: For an expert adult audience, including academic research. (06)
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