Davis The Emancipation Circuit

Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2280-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 480 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Thulani

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.