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

He emphasizes, not the defeat of these aspirations, but rather the victories the freedmen won against white resistance.

About the author

Wilbert L. Jenkins

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Wilbert L. Jenkins, Jenkins Wilbert L
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2003
• EAN: 9780253216090
• ISBN: 978-0-253-21609-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Weight: 404 g
• Illustrations: 30 b&w photos, 1 bibliog., 1 index
• Series: Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperb; Blacks in the Diaspora; Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperb
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous