Illusions of emancipation : the pursuit of freedom and equality in the twilight of slavery

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Title
"Illusions of emancipation : the pursuit of freedom and equality in the twilight of slavery"
Statement of Responsibility
Joseph P. Reidy
Publisher
  • University of North Carolina Press
Publication Year
  • c2019
Book size
25 cm
Series Name / No
  • : cloth

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Summary: "There are many controversies and chronic misconceptions surrounding the idea of emancipation in the nineteenth-century United States. Much recent scholarship has sought to address these misconceptions ... Reidy further enriches and complicates our understanding of emancipation in the context of the Civil War. Drawing us back to testimonies of participants and contemporary witnesses of the era and synthesizing the perspectives of subsequent observers, Reidy reveals emancipation as a long, messy process, with contingencies that clustered around the categories of time, place, and person ... Reidy's thematic approach allows him to shed new light on the wide-ranging and diverse expressions and experiences of freedom as it came suddenly, slowly, or not at all"-- Provided by publisher

Bibliography: p. [449]-489

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