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Illusions of Emancipation - The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery (Paperback)
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Illusions of Emancipation - The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery (Paperback)
Series: Littlefield History of the Civil War Era
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As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not
merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat
in April 1865. It was a process that required more than legal or
military action. With enslaved people fully engaged as actors,
emancipation necessitated a fundamental reordering of a way of life
whose implications stretched well beyond the former slave states.
Slavery did not die quietly or quickly, nor did freedom fulfill
every dream of the enslaved or their allies. The process unfolded
unevenly. In this sweeping reappraisal of slavery's end during the
Civil War era, Joseph P. Reidy employs the lenses of time, space,
and individuals' sense of personal and social belonging to
understand how participants and witnesses coped with drastic
change, its erratic pace, and its unforeseeable consequences.
Emancipation disrupted everyday habits, causing sensations of
disorientation that sometimes intensified the experience of reality
and sometimes muddled it. While these illusions of emancipation
often mixed disappointment with hope, through periods of even
intense frustration they sustained the promise that the struggle
for freedom would result in victory.
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