Description
After Slavery moves beyond broad generalizations concerning black life during Reconstruction in order to address the varied experiences of freed slaves across the South. Urban unrest in New Orleans and Wilmington, North Carolina, loyalty among former slave owners and slaves in Mississippi, armed insurrection along the Georgia coast, and racial violence throughout the region are just some of the topics examined.
The essays included here are selected from the best work created for the After Slavery Project, a transatlantic research collaboration. Combined, they offer a diversity of viewpoints on the key issues in Reconstruction historiography and a well-rounded portrait of the era.
About the Author
Bruce E. Baker, lecturer on American history, Newcastle University, UK, is the author of numerous books, including What Reconstruction Meant.
Brian Kelly, director of the After Slavery Project and reader in the School of History and Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, is the author of Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21.
Book Information
ISBN 9780813060972
Author Bruce E. Baker
Format Paperback
Page Count 278
Imprint University Press of Florida
Publisher University Press of Florida
Weight(grams) 500g