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Emancipation's diaspora : race and Reconstruction in the upper Midwest
Title
Emancipation's diaspora : race and Reconstruction in the upper Midwest / Leslie A. Schwalm.
ISBN
9780807832912 (cloth : alk. paper)
080783291X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807859506 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807859508 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Physical Description
xii, 387 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 03, 2009
Series
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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