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Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
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Overview
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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781469648378 |
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Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
Publication date: | 01/15/2019 |
Series: | Littlefield History of the Civil War Era |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | NOOK Book |
Pages: | 520 |
File size: | 25 MB |
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In this highly anticipated study, Reidy encapsulates a half century of scholarship on emancipation and its consequences while advancing a fresh and innovative interpretation. Employing something akin to a historian's theory of relativity, Reidy convincingly demonstrates that the supposedly fixed concepts of 'time,' 'space,' and 'home' assumed an essential fluidity within the context of war and social upheaval. This boldly original approach to the destruction of slaveryfrom one of the foremost scholars in the fieldis sure to become indispensable reading.John C. Rodrigue, author of Lincoln and Reconstruction
Reidy compellingly shows that the wartime emancipation was not a linear process but, instead, circuitous and unpredictable. A helpful, provocative, and groundbreaking book, and a valuable contribution to historians' ongoing efforts to write an adequate history of what Reidy calls 'the collapse of slavery.'Kate Masur, author of An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C.