| Uniform title | Dying free |
| Series |
New studies in Southern history
New studies in Southern history. ^A1343897
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| Contents |
"Let's go to buryin'" : African American civilian funerals and cemeteries in freedom -- "To repose with their comrades" : African Americans and the creation of national cemeteries -- "The widows and families of the heroic dead" : African American kinship and domestic economy -- "The invisible army" : African American religious life and death -- "We are killed all the day long" : testifying and writing about death -- Conclusion: "In the cold valley and shadow of the South land." |
| Abstract |
"In this study the author examines how, in the Civil War-era South, newly freed African Americans used their experiences with death from war, disease, and racial violence to advance their own understanding of the meaning of freedom and to stake claims to citizenship, civil rights, and racial justice from the federal government"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Maryland, 2017, titled Dying free : African Americans, death, and the new birth of freedom, 1863-1877. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Towle, Ashley, 1987- Dying free African Americans, death, and the new birth of freedom Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023] 9781666905724 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022037073 |
| ISBN | 9781666905717 |
| ISBN | 1666905712 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
