Beyond Freedom Disrupting the History of Emancipation |
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Editor:
| Blight, David W. Downs, Jim |
Foreword by:
| Foner, Eric |
Contribution by:
| Foner, Eric O'Donovan, Susan Eva Behrend, Justin Glymph, Thavolia Downs, Greg Stevenson, Brenda Manning, Chandra Masur, Kate Oakes, James Emberton, Carole Rosen, Hannah Berry, Stephen |
Author:
| Newman, Richard S. Taylor, Amy Murrell |
Series title: | UnCivil Wars Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8203-5147-6 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2017 |
Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
List Price: | USD $83.95 |
Book Description:
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This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recentres our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did it mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Some of the essays disrupt the traditional story and time-frame of emancipation.
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recentres our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did it mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Some of the essays disrupt the traditional story and time-frame of emancipation.