Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North
Carolina and came of age at the dawn of emancipation. Raised by a
white slaveholding woman, Joyner never knew the truth about her
parentage. She grew up isolated and unsure of who she was and where
she belonged—feelings that no emancipation proclamation could
assuage. Her life story—candidly recounted in an oral history for
the Federal Writers’ Project—captures the intimate nature of
freedom. Using Joyner’s interview and the interviews of other
formerly enslaved people, historian Carole Emberton uncovers the
deeply personal, emotional journeys of freedom’s charter
generation—the people born into slavery who walked into a new
world of freedom during the Civil War. From the seemingly mundane
to the most vital, emancipation opened up a myriad of new
possibilities: what to wear and where to live, what jobs to take
and who to love. Although Joyner was educated at a Freedmen’s
Bureau school and married a man she loved, slavery cast a long
shadow. Uncertainty about her parentage haunted her life, and as
Jim Crow took hold throughout the South, segregation,
disfranchisement and racial violence threatened the loving home she
made for her family. But through it all, she found beauty in the
world and added to it where she could. Weaving together
illuminating voices from the charter generation, To Walk About in
Freedom gives us a kaleidoscopic look at the lived experiences of
emancipation and challenges us to think anew about the consequences
of failing to reckon with the afterlife of slavery.
General
| Imprint: |
W W Norton & Co Inc
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
March 2023 |
| Authors: |
Carole Emberton
|
| Dimensions: |
211 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
272 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-324-05027-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-324-05027-6 |
| Barcode: |
9781324050278 |
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