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]
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Description	1 online resource.
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.
Note	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 17, 2019).
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
Subject	Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
	African Americans -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century.
	HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
	Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Enslaved persons -- Emancipation. (OCoLC)fst01120540
	African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
	Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States -- History.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Chronological Term	1800-1899
ISBN	9781469648378 (electronic book)
	1469648377 (electronic book)
	9781469648385 (electronic book)
	1469648385 (electronic book)

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