Title Emancipation's diaspora : race and reconstruction in the upper Midwest / Leslie A. Schwalm

Edition 1st ed Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2009] ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 387 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. Contents A full realization of the barbarities of slavery -- A time of scattering -- Overrun with free Negroes: the politics of wartime emancipation and -- Migration in the upper Midwest -- To go and help be free: migration and the black military experience -- The building up of our race: creating a life in freedom -- Freedom was all they had: civil rights and northern reconstruction -- Agonizing groans of mothers and slave-scarred veterans: history -- Commemoration, and memoir in the aftermath of slavery Summary Most studies of emancipation's consequences have focused on the South. This book follows the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery; made their way to overwhelmingly white communities in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin; and worked to live in dignity as free women and men, and as citizens. It explores the hotly contested politics of black enfranchisement as well as collisions over segregation, civil rights, and the more informal politics of race - including how slavery and emancipation would be remembered and commemorated Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-373) and index Notes Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 26, 2021) Subject African Americans -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century African Americans -- Minnesota -- History -- 19th century African Americans -- Wisconsin -- History -- 19th century Freed persons -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century Freed persons -- Minnesota -- History -- 19th century Freed persons -- Wisconsin -- History -- 19th century Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877) Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) African Americans Freed persons Race relations SUBJECT Iowa -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century Minnesota -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century Wisconsin -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century Subject Iowa Minnesota United States Wisconsin Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780807894125 0807894125 9781469605579 1469605570 080783291X 9780807832912 0807859508 9780807859506

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