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

Informationen zum Autor Wilbert L. Jenkins is Associate Professor of History at Temple University. Klappentext He emphasizes, not the defeat of these aspirations, but rather the victories the freedmen won against white resistance. Zusammenfassung Focuses on the efforts of 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 work attempts to understand how the freed men saw themselves in the new order and to examine the conditions of life under Reconstruction.

Product details

• Authors: Wilbert L. Jenkins
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.07.1998
• EAN: 9780253333803
• ISBN: 978-0-253-33380-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Blacks in the Diaspora; Blacks in the Diaspora (Hardco
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries