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Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery
By Reidy, Joseph P.
- ISBN
- 9781469648361 9781469648378
- Publisher
- Univ. of North Carolina
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Reviewed on March 1, 2019 | Visions of Slavery
Reidy (From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South) draws on the massive set of documents related to emancipation, black soldiering, Reconstruction, and related issues in the National Archives to bring us into the intimate worlds of people working out the meanings of "freedom" during the Civil War era. The author's insightful study of the many complex, contradictory, and contentious id...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
