Illusions of emancipation : the pursuit of freedom and equality in the twilight of slavery / Joseph...
Illusions of emancipation : the pursuit of freedom and equality in the twilight of slavery / Joseph...
Illusions of emancipation : the pursuit of freedom and equality in the twilight of slavery / Joseph P. Reidy.
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Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
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G 2020/2279
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Language
English
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506 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
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 E...
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Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Place of Publication
North Carolina
Date Published
[2019]
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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 part...
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Illusions of emancipation : the pursuit of freedom and equality in the twilight of slavery / Joseph P. Reidy.
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The Littlefield history of the Civil War era
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-489) and index.
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©2019
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G 2020/2279
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74VKaPzeO8dg
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ISBN
9781469648361 hardcover alkaline paper
1469648369 hardcover alkaline paper
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305.89607309034
MMS ID
991024312213502626
