Davis Thulani Davis

Emancipation Circuit (eBook, PDF)

Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Emancipation Circuit 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. Drawing on the practices of community they developed while enslaved, freedpeople built new settlements and created a network of circuits through which they imagined, enacted, and defended freedom. This interdisciplinary history shows that these circuits linked rural and urban organizations, labor struggles, and political culture with news, strategies, education, and mutual aid. Mapping the emancipation circuits, Davis shows the geography of ideas of freedom---circulating on shipping routes, via army maneuvers, and with itinerant activists---that became the basis for the first mass Black political movement for equal citizenship in the United States. In this work, she reconfigures understandings of the evolution of southern Black political agendas while outlining the origins of the enduring Black freedom struggle from the Jim Crow era to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478022800
• Artikelnr.: 66282810

Autorenporträt

Thulani Davis

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