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African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom - Dying Free during the Civil War and Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom - Dying Free during the Civil War and Reconstruction (Hardcover)
Series: New Studies in Southern History
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This innovative book examines how African Americans in the South
made sense of the devastating loss of life unleashed by the Civil
War and emancipation. During and after the war, African Americans
died in vast numbers from battle, disease, and racial violence.
While freedom was a momentous event for the formerly enslaved, it
was also deadly. Through an investigation into how African
Americans reacted to and coped with the passing away of loved ones
and community members, Ashley Towle argues that freedpeople gave
credence to their free status through their experiences with
mortality. African Americans harnessed the power of death in a
variety of arenas, including within the walls of national and
private civilian cemeteries, in applications for widows' pensions,
in the pulpits of black churches, around seance tables, on the
witness stand at congressional hearings, and in the columns of
African American newspapers. In the process of mourning the demise
of kith and kin, black people reconstituted their families, forged
communal bonds, and staked claims to citizenship, civil rights, and
racial justice from the federal government. In a society upended by
civil war and emancipation, death was political.
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