Seizing the New Day - African Americans in Post-Civil War Charleston

"Seizing the New Day is a good book, carefully researched, logically organized, and clearly written. . . . an excellent model for others who would study change at the local level in this fascinating period of American history. And the volume is handsomely illustrated with well-chosen photographs, drawings, and maps."-H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences
For former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina, life was a constant struggle adjusting to freedom while battling whites' attempts to regain control. Using autobiographies, slave narratives, Freedmen's Bureau letters and papers, and other primary documents, Wilbert L. Jenkins attempts to understand how the freedmen saw themselves in the new order and to shed light on their hopes and aspirations. He emphasizes, not the defeat of these aspirations, but rather the victories the freedmen won against white resistance.

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Wilbert L. Jenkins

Zusammenfassung

Focuses on the means employed by former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina to adjust to their status as a free people and to battle attempts by whites to regain control over them. This study attempts to understand how the freedmen saw themselves in the new order and to shed light on their hopes and aspirations.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Wilbert L. Jenkins, Jenkins Wilbert L
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.05.2003
• EAN: 9780253216090
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21609-0
• Seiten: 258
• Abmessung: 158 mm x 233 mm x 20 mm
• Gewicht: 408 g
• Serien: Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperb; Blacks in the Diaspora; Indiana University Press; Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperb
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges