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Author : Elizabeth A. Regosin,Donald R. Shaffer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814775868
Slavery and emancipation -- The Civil War -- Postwar patterns -- Marriage and family -- Appendix : complete sample documents
Author : Elizabeth A Regosin,Donald R Shaffer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814776261
Voices of Emancipation seeks to recover the lives and words of former slaves in vivid detail, mining the case files of the U.S. Pension Bureau, which administered a huge pension system for Union veterans and their survivors in the decades following the Civil War. The files contain an invaluable, first-hand perspective of slavery, emancipation, black military service, and freedom. Moreover, as Pension Bureau examiners began interviewing black Union veterans and their families shortly after the Civil War, the files are arguably among the earliest sources of ex-slaves reflecting on their lives, occurring decades before better-known WPA Slave Narratives of the 1930s took place. Voices of Emancipation explores the words of former slaves topically, beginning with recollections of slavery, moving on to experiences of military service in the Civil War, the transition to freedom, and finally to reflections on marriage and family before and after emancipation. With an introduction that places the pension files in context and presents the themes of the book, and historical commentary interwoven throughout the excerpts of the interviews themselves, Elizabeth A. Regosin and Donald R. Shaffer effectively introduce the files and the treasures they contain to students and general readers, but also provide specialists with an indispensable research tool.
Author : C. Peter Ripley
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807864357
Encompassing a broad range of African American voices, from Frederick Douglass to anonymous fugitive slaves, this collection collects eighty-nine exceptional documents that represent the best of the five-volume Black Abolitionist Papers. In these compelling texts African Americans tell their own stories of the struggle to end slavery and claim their rights as American citizens, of the battle against colonization and the "back to Africa" movement, and of their troubled relationship with the federal government.
Author : Leslie Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1118291247
"Features a diverse range of voices that cut across class and political affiliations as well as across regions and generations"--
Author : Leslie Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1444339400
Compelling and enlightening, this collection of primary source documents allows twenty-first century students to ‘direct dial’ key figures in African-American history. It includes concise and perceptive commentary along with engaging suggestions for discussion and project work. • Examines key themes from multiple perspectives • Features a diverse range of voices that cut across class and political affiliations as well as across regions and generations • Chronological and thematic coverage from emancipation to the current day • Primary source documents include everything from letters and speeches to photographs, rap lyrics and newspaper reports • Incorporates recent as well as traditional historical interpretations • Classroom-ready text which includes keynotes on documents, differentiated material and engaging discussion questions
Author : Marc Favreau
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781620970447
The groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed With the publication of the 1619 Project and the national reckoning over racial inequality, the story of slavery has gripped America’s imagination—and conscience—once again. No group of people better understood the power of slavery’s legacies than the last generation of American people who had lived as slaves. Little-known before the first publication of Remembering Slavery over two decades ago, their memories were recorded on paper, and in some cases on primitive recording devices, by WPA workers in the 1930s. A major publishing event, Remembering Slavery captured these extraordinary voices in a single volume for the first time, presenting them as an unprecedented, first-person history of slavery in America. Remembering Slavery received the kind of commercial attention seldom accorded projects of this nature—nationwide reviews as well as extensive coverage on prime-time television, including Good Morning America, Nightline, CBS Sunday Morning, and CNN. Reviewers called the book “chilling . . . [and] riveting” (Publishers Weekly) and “something, truly, truly new” (The Village Voice). With a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar Annette Gordon-Reed, this new edition of Remembering Slavery is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand one of the most basic and essential chapters in our collective history.
Author : Wayne Grady
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385677684
"Grady's novel reads with the velvety tempo of the jazz music of its day. . . . Grady fearlessly explores heated race relations and the masks we all assume." —Chatelaine With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It's World War II, and while stationed in St. John's, Newfoundland, Jack meets the well-heeled Vivian Clift, a local girl who has never stepped off the Rock and longs to see the world. They marry against Vivian's family's wishes—there's something about Jack that they just don't like—and as the war draws to a close, the couple travels to Windsor to meet Jack's family. But when Vivian meets Jack's mother and brother, everything she thought she knew about her husband gets called into question. They don't live in the dream home Jack depicted, they all look different from one another—different from anyone Vivian has ever seen--and after weeks of waiting to meet Jack's father, he never materializes. Steeped in jazz and big-band music, spanning pre- and post-war Windsor-Detroit, St. John's, Newfoundland, and 1950s Toronto, this is an arresting, heartwrenching novel about fathers and sons, love and sacrifice, race relations and a time in our history when the world was on the cusp of momentous change.
Author : Riché Richardson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478012504
In Emancipation's Daughters, Riché Richardson examines iconic black women leaders who have contested racial stereotypes and constructed new national narratives of black womanhood in the United States. Drawing on literary texts and cultural representations, Richardson shows how five emblematic black women—Mary McLeod Bethune, Rosa Parks, Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Obama, and Beyoncé—have challenged white-centered definitions of American identity. By using the rhetoric of motherhood and focusing on families and children, these leaders have defied racist images of black women, such as the mammy or the welfare queen, and rewritten scripts of femininity designed to exclude black women from civic participation. Richardson shows that these women's status as national icons was central to reconstructing black womanhood in ways that moved beyond dominant stereotypes. However, these formulations are often premised on heteronormativity and exclude black queer and trans women. Throughout Emancipation's Daughters, Richardson reveals new possibilities for inclusive models of blackness, national femininity, and democracy.
Author : Glenn David Brasher
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807835449
The Peninsula Campaign and the Necessity of Emancipation
Author : Patrice Sherman
Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780802853196
A self-taught young slave astonishes his fellow prisoners by reading aloud the newspaper account of Lincoln s new emancipation proclamation. Based on actual events.
Author : Joseph P. Reidy
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469648378
As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865. It was a process that required more than legal or military action. With enslaved people fully engaged as actors, emancipation necessitated a fundamental reordering of a way of life whose implications stretched well beyond the former slave states. Slavery did not die quietly or quickly, nor did freedom fulfill every dream of the enslaved or their allies. The process unfolded unevenly. In this sweeping reappraisal of slavery's end during the Civil War era, Joseph P. Reidy employs the lenses of time, space, and individuals' sense of personal and social belonging to understand how participants and witnesses coped with drastic change, its erratic pace, and its unforeseeable consequences. Emancipation disrupted everyday habits, causing sensations of disorientation that sometimes intensified the experience of reality and sometimes muddled it. While these illusions of emancipation often mixed disappointment with hope, through periods of even intense frustration they sustained the promise that the struggle for freedom would result in victory.
Author : Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300145069
Chronicling the lives of African American women in the urban north of America (particularly Philadelphia) during the early years of the republic, 'A Fragile Freedom' investigates how they journeyed from enslavement to the precarious state of 'free persons' in the decades before the Civil War.
Author : C. Peter Ripley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN : 9798890866509
"This documentary history of the African American struggle for freedom and equality collects eighty-nine documents that represent the best of the recently published five-volume Black abolitionist papers. In these texts, African Americans tell their own stories of the struggle to end slavery and claim their rights as American citizens, of the battle against colonization and the "back to Africa" movement, and of their troubled relationship with the federal government."--Publisher's description.
Author : Bruce Levine
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195147629
Levine sheds light on such hot-button topics as what the Confederacy was fighting for, whether black southerners were willing to fight in large numbers in defense of the South, and what this episode foretold about life and politics in the post-war South.
Author : Edward L. Ayers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393292640
Winner of the Lincoln Prize A landmark Civil War history told from a fresh, deeply researched ground-level perspective. At the crux of America’s history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slavery in the modern world, followed by a political reconstruction in which new constitutions established the fundamental rights of citizens for formerly enslaved people. Few people living in 1860 would have dared imagine either event, and yet, in retrospect, both seem to have been inevitable. In a beautifully crafted narrative, Edward L. Ayers restores the drama of the unexpected to the history of the Civil War. From the same vantage point occupied by his unforgettable characters, Ayers captures the strategic savvy of Lee and his local lieutenants, and the clear vision of equal rights animating black troops from Pennsylvania. We see the war itself become a scourge to the Valley, its pitched battles punctuating a cycle of vicious attack and reprisal in which armies burned whole towns for retribution. In the weeks and months after emancipation, from the streets of Staunton, Virginia, we see black and white residents testing the limits of freedom as political leaders negotiate the terms of readmission to the Union. With analysis as powerful as its narrative, here is a landmark history of the Civil War.