Seizing freedom: slave emancipation and liberty for all

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How did America recover after its years of civil war? How did freed men and women, former slaves, respond to their newly won freedom? David Roediger's radical new history redefines the idea of freedom after the jubilee, using fresh sources and texts to build on the leading historical accounts of Emancipation and Reconstruction. Reinstating ex-slaves' own "freedom dreams" in constructing these histories, Roediger creates a masterful account of the emancipation and its ramifications on a whole ho…

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Title Statements

Full title :Seizing freedom : slave emancipation and liberty for all / David Roediger.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Verso
Place of Publication:Brooklyn
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:230 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781781686096, 1781686092
oclc:ocn870663609
LC Classification:E185.2
Dewey Decimal:305.00973

Introduction: plotting Jubilee -- Turning a world upside down: the general strike of the slaves, Jubilee, and the making of a revolutionary Civil War -- Emancipation from whiteness: witnessing disability and Jubilee -- After the impossible: eight hours, Black labor, women's suffrage, and freedom for all -- Falling apart: the first Rainbow Coalition and the waning of revolutionary time -- Afterword: dreams deferred: social tragedies and hidden histories in the longer run.

Subjects

African Americans African Americans -- History -- 1863-18… Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Uni… États-Unis -- Relations raciales -- 19e… Förenta staterna History Noirs américains -- Histoire -- 1863-18… Race relations Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Slaves -- Emancipation United States United States -- Race relations -- 19th…