Emancipation's diaspora : race and reconstruction in the upper Midwest

Emancipation's diaspora : race and reconstruction in the upper Midwest / Leslie A. Schwalm.

Most studies of emancipation's consequences have focused on the South. This book follows 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 dig...

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Main Author: Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
1800-1899
African Americans > Iowa > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Minnesota > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Wisconsin > History > 19th century.
Freed persons > Iowa > History > 19th century.
Freed persons > Minnesota > History > 19th century.
Freed persons > Wisconsin > History > 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
African Americans
Freed persons
Race relations
Iowa > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Minnesota > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Wisconsin > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Iowa
Minnesota
United States
Wisconsin
Electronic books.
History
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Table of 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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