Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation (UnCivil Wars Ser.)
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (888 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820351490 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Blight is a professor of history at Yale University, the director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale, and the author of several books, most recently, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era.Jim Downs is an associate professor of history at Connecticut College and the author of Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction.. About the AuthorDavid W
Who defined freedom, and what did it mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Some of the essays disrupt the traditional story and time-frame of emancipation.. This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation
David W. Blight is a professor of history at Yale University, the director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale, and the author of several books, most recently, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era.Jim Downs is an associate professor of history at Connecticut College and the author of