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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808614803321

Titolo

After slavery [[electronic resource] ] : race, labor, and citizenship in the reconstruction South / / edited by Bruce E. Baker and Brian Kelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, c2013

ISBN

0-8130-4644-0

0-8130-4837-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Collana

New perspectives on the history of the South

Altri autori (Persone)

BakerBruce E. <1971->

KellyBrian <1958->

Disciplina

306.3/620973

Soggetti

Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Slavery - United States - History

African Americans - History - 1863-1877

African Americans - History - 1877-1964

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Slave and citizen in the modern world: rethinking emancipation in the twenty-first century / Thomas C. Holt -- "Erroneous and incongruous notions of liberty": urban unrest and the origins of radical reconstruction in New Orleans, 1865-1868 / James Illingworth -- "Surrounded on all sides by an armed and brutal mob": newspapers, politics, and law in the Ogeechee Insurrection, 1868-1869 / Jonathan M. Bryant -- "It looks much like abandoned land": property and the politics of loyalty in reconstruction Mississippi / Erik Mathisen -- Anarchy at the circumference: statelessness and the reconstruction of authority in emancipation North Carolina / Gregory P. Downs -- "The negroes are no longer slaves": free black families, free labor, and racial violence in post-emancipation Kentucky / J. Michael Rhyne -- Ex-slaveholders and the Ku Klux Klan: exploring the motivations of terrorist violence / Michael W. Fitzgerald -- Drovers, distillers, and democrats: economic and political change in Northern Greenville County, 1865- / Bruce E. Baker -- Mapping freedom's terrain: the



political and productive landscapes of Wilmington, North Carolina / Susan Eva O'Donovan -- Class, factionalism, and the radical retreat: black laborers and the Republican Party in South Carolina, 1865-1900 / Brian Kelly.

Sommario/riassunto

Focuses on labor and politics to help develop broader interpretive trends in the post-emancipation US South.