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Title Rethinking American emancipation : legacies of slavery and the quest for Black freedom / edited by William A. Link (University of Florida), James J. Broomall (Shepherd University).
Publisher New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Description xvi, 275 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9781107073036 hardback
9781107421349 paperback
Contents Introduction / William A. Link and James J. Broomall -- I: Claiming emancipation. Bodies in motion and the making of emancipation / Yael Sternhell -- Force, freedom, and the making of emancipation / Gregory P. Downs -- Military interference in elections as an influence on abolition / William A. Blair -- II: Contesting emancipation. "One pillar of the social fabric may still stand firm": border south marriages in the emancipation era / Allison Fredette -- Axes of empire: race, region, and the "greater reconstruction" of federal authority after emancipation / Carole Emberton -- Fear of reenslavement: black political mobilization in response to the waning of reconstruction / Justin Behrend -- III: Remembering emancipation. African Americans and the long emancipation in new South Atlanta / William A. Link -- Washington, Toussaint, and Bolivar, "the glorious advocates of liberty": black internationalism and reimagining emancipation / Paul Ortiz -- Remembering the abolitionists and the meanings of freedom / John Stauffer -- Epilogue: Emancipation and the nation / Laura Edwards.
Series Cambridge studies on the American South.
Library Class History TH150
Subject Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
African Americans -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Other Author Link, William A., editor.
Broomall, James J., editor.

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