Freedom for African Americans is often assumed to have been granted and fully realized when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. In reality, the meaning of freedom was vigorously, often lethally, contested in the aftermath of the Civil War. After Slavery moves beyond broad generalizations concerning black life during Reconstruction in order to offer a well-rounded portrait of the era.
Topics include urban unrest in New Orleans and Wilmington, North Carolina, loyalty among former slave owners and slaves in Mississippi, armed insurrection along the Georgia coast, and racial violence throughout the region.
Freedom for African Americans is often assumed to have been granted and fully realized when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. In reality, the meaning of freedom was vigorously, often lethally, contested in the aftermath of the Civil War. After Slavery moves beyond broad generalizations concerning black life during Reconstruction in order to offer a well-rounded portrait of the era.
Topics include urban unrest in New Orleans and Wilmington, North Carolina, loyalty among former slave owners and slaves in Mississippi, armed insurrection along the Georgia coast, and racial violence throughout the region.
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After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
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After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780813060972 |
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Publisher: | University Press of Florida |
Publication date: | 10/21/2014 |
Series: | New Perspectives on the History of the South |
Pages: | 278 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d) |