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Rethinking American Emancipation - Legacies of Slavery and the Quest for Black Freedom (Hardcover)
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Rethinking American Emancipation - Legacies of Slavery and the Quest for Black Freedom (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies on the American South
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On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation
Proclamation, an event that soon became a bold statement of
presidential power, a dramatic shift in the rationale for fighting
the Civil War, and a promise of future freedom for four million
enslaved Americans. But the document marked only a beginning;
freedom's future was anything but certain. Thereafter, the
significance of both the Proclamation and of emancipation assumed
new and diverse meanings, as African Americans explored freedom and
the nation attempted to rebuild itself. Despite the sweeping power
of Lincoln's Proclamation, struggle, rather than freedom, defined
emancipation's broader legacy. The nine essays in this volume
unpack the long history and varied meanings of the emancipation of
American slaves. Together, the contributions argue that 1863 did
not mark an end point or a mission accomplished in black freedom;
rather, it initiated the beginning of an ongoing, contested
process.
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