African Americans
After Slavery
After Slavery Project
American South
armed insurrection
black communities
black political activism
black self-determination
Brian Kelly
Bruce Baker
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citizenship
Civil War
Civil War politics
Civil War Reconstruction
Emancipation Proclamation
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essays
freed slaves
historiography
history
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labor
New Orleans
New Perspectives on the History of the South
postbellum
race
racial violence
Reconstruction
social change
social conflict
Southern history
transatlantic research
urban unrest
Wilmington
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- ISBN 9780813060972
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 21 Oct 2014
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the popular imagination, freedom for African Americans is often assumed to have been granted and fully realized when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation or, at the very least, at the conclusion of the Civil War. In reality, the anxiety felt by newly freed slaves and their allies in the wake of the conflict illustrates a more complicated dynamic: the meaning of freedom was vigorously, often lethally, contested in the aftermath of the war.
After Slavery moves beyond broad generalizations concerning black life during Reconstruction in order to address the varied experiences of freed slaves across the South. Urban unrest in New Orleans and Wilmington, North Carolina, loyalty among former slave owners and slaves in Mississippi, armed insurrection along the Georgia coast, and racial violence throughout the region are just some of the topics examined.
The essays included here are selected from the best work created for the After Slavery Project, a transatlantic research collaboration. Combined, they offer a diversity of viewpoints on the key issues in Reconstruction historiography and a well-rounded portrait of the era.
After Slavery moves beyond broad generalizations concerning black life during Reconstruction in order to address the varied experiences of freed slaves across the South. Urban unrest in New Orleans and Wilmington, North Carolina, loyalty among former slave owners and slaves in Mississippi, armed insurrection along the Georgia coast, and racial violence throughout the region are just some of the topics examined.
The essays included here are selected from the best work created for the After Slavery Project, a transatlantic research collaboration. Combined, they offer a diversity of viewpoints on the key issues in Reconstruction historiography and a well-rounded portrait of the era.
Bruce E. Baker, lecturer on American history, Newcastle University, UK, is the author of numerous books, including What Reconstruction Meant.
Brian Kelly, director of the After Slavery Project and reader in the School of History and Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, is the author of Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21.
Brian Kelly, director of the After Slavery Project and reader in the School of History and Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, is the author of Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21.
