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Emancipation's diaspora : race and reconstruction in the upper Midwest / Leslie A. Schwalm.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956-
- Series:
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Iowa--History--19th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Minnesota--History--19th century.
- African Americans--Wisconsin--History--19th century.
- Freed persons--Iowa--History--19th century.
- Freed persons.
- Freed persons--Minnesota--History--19th century.
- Freed persons--Wisconsin--History--19th century.
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- Iowa--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Iowa.
- Minnesota--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Minnesota.
- Wisconsin--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Wisconsin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (400 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Most studies of emancipation's consequences have focused on the South. Moving the discussion to the North, Leslie Schwalm enriches our understanding of the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom. Emancipation's Diaspora follows the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery, made their way to overwhelmingly white communities in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and worked to live in dignity as free women and men and as citizens.Schwalm explores the hotly contested politics of black enfranchisement as well as collisi
- Contents:
- A full realization of the barbarities of slavery
- A time of scattering
- Overrun with free Negroes: the politics of wartime emancipation and
- Migration in the upper Midwest
- To go and help be free: migration and the black military experience
- The building up of our race: creating a life in freedom
- Freedom was all they had: civil rights and northern reconstruction
- Agonizing groans of mothers and slave-scarred veterans: history
- Commemoration, and memoir in the aftermath of slavery.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-373) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908837-2-8
- 1-4696-0557-0
- 0-8078-9412-5
- OCLC:
- 642661015
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