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Emancipation's diaspora : race and reconstruction in the upper Midwest /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Freedmen > Wisconsin > History > 19th century.
Freedmen > Minnesota > History > 19th century.
Freedmen > Iowa > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Wisconsin > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Minnesota > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Iowa > History > 19th century.
Wisconsin > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Minnesota > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Iowa > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • A full realization of the barbarities of slavery
  • A time of scattering
  • Overrun with free Negroes: the politics of wartime emancipation and
  • Migration in the upper Midwest
  • To go and help be free: migration and the black military experience
  • The building up of our race: creating a life in freedom
  • Freedom was all they had: civil rights and northern reconstruction
  • Agonizing groans of mothers and slave-scarred veterans: history
  • Commemoration, and memoir in the aftermath of slavery.