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Author Reidy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick), 1948- author.

Title Illusions of emancipation : the pursuit of freedom and equality in the twilight of slavery / Joseph P. Reidy.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Littlefield history of the civil war era
Littlefield history of the Civil War era.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction. Phantoms of Freedom; Part I. Time; Chapter 1. Linear Chronology; Chapter 2. Recurring Seasons; Chapter 3. Revolutionary Time; Part II. Space; Chapter 4. Panoramas; Chapter 5. Confines; Chapter 6. Tremors and Whirlpools; Part III. Home; Chapter 7. Our Home and Country; Chapter 8. The Blessings of a Home; Chapter 9. The Home of the Brave; Epilogue. Illusions of Emancipation; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
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Subject Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
United States.
History.
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject African Americans -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
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