Emancipation's diaspora : race and Reconstruction in the upper Midwest /
Schwalm, Leslie A.(Leslie Ann),1956-
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
African Americans
African Americans
African Americans
Freedmen
Freedmen
Freedmen
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)