Rethinking American emancipation legacies of slavery and the quest for Black freedom
On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation, an event that soon became a bold statement of presidential power, a dramatic shift in the rationale for fighting the Civil War, and a promise of future freedom for four million enslaved Americans. But the document marked on...
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Cambridge University Press
2016
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| Schriftenreihe: | Cambridge studies on the American South
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction / William A. Link and James J. Broomall
- Part I. Claiming emancipation
- A universe of flight / Yael Sternhell
- Force, freedom, and the making of emancipation / Greg Downs
- A tainted ballot: military interference in elections and the Thirteenth Amendment / William A. Blair
- Part II. Contesting emancipation
- One pillar of the social fabric may still stand firm: border south marriages in the emancipation era / Allison Fredette
- Axes of empire: race, region, and the "greater reconstruction" of federal authority after emancipation / Carole Emberton
- The fear of reenslavement: Black political mobilization in response to the waning of Reconstruction / Justin Behrend
- Part III. Remembering emancipation
- African Americans and the long emancipation in new south Atlanta / William A. Link
- Washington, Toussaint, and Bolivar: the glorious advocates of liberty': Black internationalism and reimagining emancipation / Paul Ortiz
- "Remembering the abolitionists and the meanings of freedom / John Stauffer
- Epilogue: Emancipation and the nation / Laura Edwards