Displaying 1 of 1 2009 Format: Book Author: Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956- Title: Emancipation's diaspora : race and reconstruction in the upper Midwest / Leslie A. Schwalm. Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009. Description: xii, 387 p. : ill., maps, photographs ; 24 cm. Summary: Helping readers understand the national impact of the transition from slavery to freedom, this book features the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery and worked to live in dignity as free women and men and as citizens. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-373) and index. Series: The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. Subjects: African Americans -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century. African Americans -- Minnesota -- History -- 19th century. African Americans -- Wisconsin -- History -- 19th century. Freedmen -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century. Freedmen -- Minnesota -- History -- 19th century. Freedmen -- Wisconsin -- History -- 19th century. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Freigelassener. Iowa -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century. Minnesota -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century. Wisconsin -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century. Wisconsin. Iowa. Minnesota. Contents: A full realization of the barbarities of slavery -- A time of scattering -- Overrun with free Negroes: the politics of wartime emancipation and -- Migration in the upper Midwest -- To go and help be free: migration and the black military experience -- The building up of our race: creating a life in freedom -- Freedom was all they had: civil rights and northern reconstruction -- Agonizing groans of mothers and slave-scarred veterans: history -- Commemoration, and memoir in the aftermath of slavery. LCCN: 2009003098 ISBN: 9780807832912 (cloth : alk. paper) 080783291X (cloth : alk. paper) 9780807859506 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0807859508 (pbk. : alk. paper) System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 Control Number: 1005276 Other Number: 261174627 # System items in: 1 Place A Hold Add to My List Share Expand All | Collapse All Find It Map It Suggestions and more Large Cover Image Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1
