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I Freed Myself - African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era (Hardcover)
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I Freed Myself - African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era (Hardcover)
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For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the
Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of
African American freedom in the Civil War era. However, David
Williams suggests that this portrayal marginalizes the role that
African American slaves played in freeing themselves. At the Civil
War's outset, Lincoln made clear his intent was to save the Union
rather than free slaves - despite his personal distaste for
slavery, he claimed no authority to interfere with the institution.
By the second year of the war, though, when the Union army was in
desperate need of black support, former slaves who escaped to Union
lines struck a bargain: they would fight for the Union only if they
were granted their freedom. Williams importantly demonstrates that
freedom was not simply the absence of slavery but rather a dynamic
process enacted by self-emancipated African American refugees,
which compelled Lincoln to modify his war aims and place black
freedom at the center of his wartime policies.
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