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Emancipation's Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture, University of North Carolina Press
2009
Abstract
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 Diaspora 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 dignity as free women and men and as citizens.Schwalm explores the hotly contested politics of black enfranchisement as well as collisi
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Emancipation's Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest
- Creators
- Leslie A Schwalm - University of Iowa, History
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press; Chapel Hill
- Series
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- ISBN
- 9780807832912; 080783291X; 9780807859506; 0807859508
- Number of pages
- xii, 387 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2009
- Academic Unit
- Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies; History
- Record Identifier
- 9983949680902771
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