Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation (UnCivil Wars) (UnCivil Wars Series)

by JimDowns (Editor), David W Blight (Editor)

• New

  Illustrated
  2017

  $100.43

  This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recentres our understanding of the process of emancipation. 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.