Emancipation's Diaspora Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest

Name: Emancipation's Diaspora Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest
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ISBN: 9780807859506

ISBN-10: 0807859508

ISBN-13: 9780807859506

Edition: 2009

Authors: Leslie A. Schwalm

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Most studies of emancipation's consequences have focused on the South. Moving the discussion to the North, Leslie Schwalm enriches our understanding of the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom.Emancipation's Diasporafollows the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery, made their way to overwhelmingly white communities in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and worked to live in dignity as free women and men and as citizens.Schwalm explores the hotly contested politics of black enfranchisement as well as collisions over segregation, civil rights, and the more informal politics of race--including how slavery and emancipation…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 7/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



"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


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index