Emancipation's diaspora
Subtitle: race and reconstruction in the upper Midwest
By: Leslie A. Schwalm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807832912; 9780807859506
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); Iowa -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century; Minnesota -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century; Wisconsin -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "A full realization of the barbarities of slavery"; title: "A time of scattering"; title: "Overrun with free Negroes": the politics of wartime emancipation and; title: Migration in the upper Midwest; title: "To go and help be free": migration and the black military experience; title: "The building up of our race": creating a life in freedom; title: "Freedom was all they had:" civil rights and northern reconstruction; title: "Agonizing groans of mothers" and "slave-scarred veterans": history; title: Commemoration, and memoir in the aftermath of slavery.