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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 : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  306.362 REIDY    Check Shelf
Description 506 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series The Littlefield history of the Civil War era
Littlefield history of the Civil War era.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-489) 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 Introduction : Phantoms of Freedom -- Part I. Time. Linear Chronology -- Recurring Seasons -- Revolutionary Time -- Part II. Space. Panoramas -- Confines -- Tremors and Whirlpools -- Part III. Home. Our Home and Country -- The Blessings of a Home -- The Home of the Brave -- Epilogue : Illusions of Emancipation.
Subject Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
African Americans -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation. (OCoLC)fst01120540
Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Chronological Term 1800-1899
ISBN 9781469648361 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
1469648369 (hardcover) (alkaline paper)
9781469648378 (electronic book)
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