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Beyond Freedom : Disrupting the History of Emancipation.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blight, David W.
- Series:
- UnCivil Wars Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Historiography.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century.
- African Americans.
- Liberty--History--19th century.
- Liberty.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of constraint and a widening of personal choice, or did it extend to the ballot box, to education, to equality of opportunity? In examining such questions, rather than defining every aspect of postemancipation life as a new form of freedom, these essays develop the work of scholars who are looking at how belonging to an empowered government or community defines the outcome of emancipation.Some essays in this collection disrupt the traditional story and time-frame of emancipation. Others offer trenchant renderings of emancipation, with new interpretations of the language and politics of democracy. Still others sidestep academic conventions to speak personally about the politics of emancipation historiography, reconsidering how historians have used source material for understanding subjects such as violence and the suffering of refugee women and children. Together the essays show that the question of freedom—its contested meanings, its social relations, and its beneficiaries—remains central to understanding the complex historical process known as emancipation.Contributors: Justin Behrend, Gregory P. Downs, Jim Downs, Carole Emberton, Eric Foner, Thavolia Glymph, Chandra Manning, Kate Masur, Richard Newman, James Oakes, Susan O'Donovan, Hannah Rosen, Brenda E. Stevenson.
- Contents:
- Prologue / Eric Foner
- Introduction / David W. Blight, Gregory P. Downs, and Jim Downs
- From slavery to freedom: the grammar of emancipation: putting final freedom in context / Richard Newman
- Writing slavery into freedom's stories / Susan E. O'Donovan
- "Us never had no big funerals or weddin's on de place": ritualizing Black marriage in the wake of freedom / Brenda E. Stevenson
- Emancipation as state building from the inside out / Chandra Manning
- The politics of freedom: the problem of equality in the age of emancipation / Kate Masur
- When neighbors turn against neighbors: irregular warfare and the crisis of democracy in the Civil War era / Justin Behrend
- When everybody knew / James Oakes
- Meditations on the meaning of freedom: Black women and children in the Civil War: archive notes / Thavolia Glymph
- "Cleaning up the mess": some thoughts on freedom, violence, and grief / Carole Emberton
- In the moment of violence: writing the history of postemancipation terror / Hannah Rosen
- Emancipating the evidence: the ontology of the Freedmen's Bureau records / Jim Downs.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8203-5147-4
- OCLC:
- 1117445571
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