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 Behrend, Justin Downs, Greg Emberton, Carole Glymph, Thavolia Manning, Chandra Masur, Kate Newman, Richard S. Oakes, James O'Donovan, Susan Eva Rosen, Hannah Stevenson, Brenda |
Series title: | UnCivil Wars Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8203-5149-0 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2017 |
Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $25.95 |
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.