Emancipation's diaspora : race and reconstruction in the upper Midwest

Emancipation's diaspora : race and reconstruction in the upper Midwest / Leslie A. Schwalm.

Author/creator	Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956-
Format	Book and Print
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
Description	xii, 387 pages : illustrations, maps, photgraphs ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	African Americans--Iowa --History --19th century. African Americans--Minnesota --History --19th century. African Americans--Wisconsin --History --19th century. Freed persons--Iowa --History --19th century. Freed persons--Minnesota --History --19th century. Freed persons--Wisconsin --History --19th century. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Iowa--Race relations --History --19th century. Minnesota--Race relations --History --19th century. Wisconsin--Race relations --History --19th century.

Series	The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. ^A413403
Contents	A full realization of the barbarities of slavery -- A time of scattering -- Overrun with free Negroes: the politics of wartime emancipation and migration in the upper Midwest -- To go and help be free: migration and the black military experience -- The building up of our race: creating a life in freedom -- Freedom was all they had: civil rights and northern reconstruction -- Agonizing groans of mothers and slave-scarred veterans: history, commemoration, and memoir in the aftermath of slavery.
Abstract	Helping readers understand the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom, this book features the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery and worked to live in dignity as free women and men and as citizens.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-373) and index.
LCCN	2009003098
ISBN	9780807832912 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	080783291X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780807859506 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0807859508 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	E185.93.I64 S34 2009	✔ Available	Place Hold