Thulani Davis

The Emancipation Circuit

Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom

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Produktbeschreibung

Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political organizations and connections that mobilized communities across the South.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9781478018193
• ISBN-10: 1478018194
• Artikelnr.: 62186948

Autorenporträt

Thulani Davis is a professor and a Nellie Y. McKay Fellow in the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-first Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots. A poet and longtime writer for theater, film, and journalism, Davis has been a recipient of a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Writers Award, a PEW Foundation National Theatre Artist Residency, and a Charles H. Revson Fellowship on the Future of New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps  xi
List of Tables  xiii
Acknowledgments  xv
Introduction: Black Political Thought as Shaped in the South  1
1. Flight: Movement Matters  19
2. The Emancipation Circuit: A Road Map  44
3. Virginia: Assembly  80
4. North Carolina: Custody  109
5. South Carolina: Majority  133
6. Georgia: Mobilization  165
7. Florida: Faction  196
8. Alabama: Redemption  217
9. Louisiana: Societies  243
10. Mississippi: Bulldoze  269
11. Arkansas: Minority  294
Conclusion: What Lives On Is Black Political Thought  321
Notes  345
Table Source Notes  393
Bibliography  397
Index  427