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Imperfect Equality - African Americans and the Confines of White Ideology in Post-Emancipation Maryland. (Hardcover)
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Imperfect Equality - African Americans and the Confines of White Ideology in Post-Emancipation Maryland. (Hardcover)
Series: Reconstructing America
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In Imperfect Equality, Richard Fuke has explores the immediate
aftermath of slavery in Maryland, which differed in important ways
from the slaveholding states of the South: it never left the Union;
white radicals had a period of access to power; and even prior to
legal emancipation, a large free black population resided there.
Moreover, the presence of Baltimore, a major city and port,
provided abundant evidence with which to compare the rural and the
urban experience of black Marylanders. This state study is
therefore uniquely revealing of the successes and failures of the
post-emancipation period. The transition in Maryland from a slave
to a free society, Fuke argues, presented to black Marylanders
opportunities to achieve previously inaccessible goals. Blacks were
able to realize some goals, such as greater land ownership, control
over the labor of their children, education, and the formation of
independent cultural and social organizations, through their own
intrepidity combined with the support of white radicals as well as
with the assistance of the Freedmen's Bureau, the United States
Army, and some state-controlled agencies. Other goals-such as
social equality, economic opportunity and advancement, and
suffrage-remained beyond the reach of blacks, not only because of
conservative white opposition, but also, Fuke argues, because of
the attitudinal limitations of white radicals unable to confront
the full range of post-emancipation possibilities. Calling upon a
very broad range of sources, Fuke demonstrates that after
emancipation, Black Marylanders neither enjoyed total freedom nor
suffered absolute coercion, but their struggle made two things
clear: much of whatever they might accomplish, they would have to
do by themselves; and such efforts would remain confined by white
attitudes determined to regulate them.
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