Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780253028297
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0253028299
Serie:
Blacks in the diaspora
Inhalt:
"Seizing the New Day is a good book, carefully researched, logically organized, and clearly written ... an excellent model for others who would study change at the local level in this fascinating period of American history. And the volume is handsomely illustrated with well-chosen photographs, drawings, and maps."'H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences For former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina, life was a constant struggle adjusting to freedom while battling whites' attempts to regain control. Using autobiographies, slave narratives, Freedmen's Bureau letters and papers, and other primary documents, Wilbert L. Jenkins attempts to understand how the freedmen saw themselves in the new order and to shed light on their hopes and aspirations. He emphasizes, not the defeat of these aspirations, but rather the victories the freedmen won against white resistance
Anmerkung:
Originally published: 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE DARK BEFORE THE DAWN Black Charleston before Emancipation; 2 THANK GOD WE ARE A FREE PEOPLE Emancipation Arrives in Charleston; 3 WE ONLY ASK FOR A CHANCE The Struggle of Charleston's Freedmen for Economic Independence; 4 WE GOTTA GET US SOME BOOK LERNIN' The Role of Black Charlestonians in Freedmen's Literacy; 5 WE ARE ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS Black Family and Community Life in Charleston during Reconstruction; 6 WE MUST HAVE OUR OWN HOUSE OF WORSHIP The Exit of Charleston's Freedmen from White Churches
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7 FREEDOM IS A CONSTANT STRUGGLE Resistance and Self-Protection by Charleston's FreedmenEPILOGUE The Light of Freedom, Justice, and Equality Brightens, Dims, and Then Darkens; APPENDIX; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY; INDEX
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jenkins, Wilbert L., 1953- Seizing the new day Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2003 ISBN 0253216095
Sprache:
Englisch
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