Beyond Freedom
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Beyond Freedom
Author: David W. Blight
language: en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date: 2017-11-01
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of constraint and a widening of personal choice, or did it extend to the ballot box, to education, to equality of opportunity? In examining such questions, rather than defining every aspect of postemancipation life as a new form of freedom, these essays develop the work of scholars who are looking at how belonging to an empowered government or community defines the outcome of emancipation. Some essays in this collection disrupt the traditional story and time-frame of emancipation. Others offer trenchant renderings of emancipation, with new interpretations of the language and politics of democracy. Still others sidestep academic conventions to speak personally about the politics of emancipation historiography, reconsidering how historians have used source material for understanding subjects such as violence and the suffering of refugee women and children. Together the essays show that the question of freedom—its contested meanings, its social relations, and its beneficiaries—remains central to understanding the complex historical process known as emancipation. Contributors: Justin Behrend, Gregory P. Downs, Jim Downs, Carole Emberton, Eric Foner, Thavolia Glymph, Chandra Manning, Kate Masur, Richard Newman, James Oakes, Susan O’Donovan, Hannah Rosen, Brenda E. Stevenson.
Beyond Freedom’s Reach
Author: Adam Rothman
language: en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: 2015-02-25
After Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862, Rose Herera’s owners fled to Havana, taking her three children with them. Adam Rothman tells the story of Herera’s quest to rescue her children from bondage after the war. As the kidnapping case made its way through the courts, it revealed the prospects and limits of justice during Reconstruction.
Beyond Freedom Fries
Beyond Freedom Fries is the charming story of a spirited French student who traveled 20,000 miles around the USA, lived with 60 American families and, through his DSL (Discover-share-Learn) program, enjoyed good times and enlightening experiences with hundreds of Americans. He made the entire trip without spending a dime from his own pocket. In these pages, he'll show you how to do the same. He shares his stories of intercultural and intergenerational relationships and adventures with the hundreds of people he met and, mainly, with the 60 American families who welcomed him into their homes in more than 35 different states. Through the spirit of his trip, summed up in the statement "understanding differences, building friendships and living with inspiration", Jean-Philippe Devillers was able to encounter American culture from a variety of angles. The result is the collection of frequently humourous travel tales.