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Landscapes of freedom : restoring the history of emancipation and citizenship in Yorktown, Virginia, 1861-1940 /

"Revelations of the profound effect and long legacy of America's post-Civil War Reconstruction. In Landscapes of Freedom, Rebecca Capobianco Toy tells the story of an emblematic community of freedpeople during the Civil War era. Some of the earliest acts of wartime emancipation happened in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Toy, Rebecca Capobianco (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2025]
Series:Reconstruction reconsidered.
Subjects:
Freed persons > Virginia > Yorktown > History.
African Americans > Virginia > Yorktown > History.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Virginia > Yorktown.
Collective memory > Virginia > Yorktown.
Yorktown (Va.) > History.
Noirs américains > Virginie > Yorktown > Histoire.
Mémoire collective > Virginie > Yorktown.
Personnes affranchies > Virginie > Yorktown > Histoire.
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Table of Contents:
  • "They Appear like Freemen"
  • "How Much We Can Do Ourselves"
  • "We Can Take Care of Ourselves Now"
  • "They Were Now Citizens"
  • "We Have a Right to the Land"
  • Landscapes of Freedom, Landscapes of Memory
  • "We Build Our Memorial in Our Lives"
  • Conclusion: The Coming of the National Park Service.