Beyond Freedom
Disrupting the History of Emancipation
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Downs, Jim (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8203-5147-6
- EAN: 9780820351476
- Produktnummer: 24412740
- Verlag: Templar
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'259 KB
- Abbildungen: 3 b&w images
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Edited by David W. Blight and Jim DownsForeword by Eric Foner
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