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

Autor Wilbert L. Jenkins
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 iul 1998
This study focuses on the means employed by former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina to adjust to their new status as a free people and to battle attempts by whites to regain control over them. Using autobiographies, slave narratives, FreedmenÕs Bureau letters and papers, travelerÕs accounts, journals, diaries, personal letters and newspapers, this study attempts to understand how the freedmen saw themselves in the new order and to shed light on their hopes and aspirations, as well as examine the conditions of life under Reconstruction. A common thread running through this study is the determination of CharlestonÕs freedmen to seize control over all aspects of their lives. CharlestonÕs black population expected full citizenship and equal economic, social, and educational opportunities. Upon realizing that these expectations were not shared by the white population, they carefully plotted their strategy to obtain these desired ends.CharlestonÕs black population exhibited their intentions for the newly developing social order through changed social customs and interactions with whites, through purchases of land, efforts to reunite scattered family members, and through the creation of their own schools, churches, and social and political organizations. This study shows that any deficiency of economic progress by CharlestonÕs freedmen was not due to lack of their own desire or efforts but rather due to the limits placed on their progress by the white-dominated society. Seizing the New Day emphasizes, not the defeat of their aspirations, but rather the victories they won against white resistance to their efforts to gain control over their own lives.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253333803
ISBN-10: 0253333806
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 30 b&w photos
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press

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“Seizing the New Day is a good book, carefully researched, logically organized, and clearly written. . . . an excellent model for others who would study change at the local level in this fascinating period of American history. And the volume is handsomely illustrated with well-chosen photographs, drawings, and maps.” H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Descriere

Historian Wilbert Jenkins sheds light on how former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina, in an attempt to adjust to freedom after the Civil War and gain control over their own lives, battled whites trying to regain control. Using autobiographies, slave narratives, Freedmen's Bureau letters and papers, and many other documents, Jenkins focuses on the freedmen's hopes and aspirations. 30 photos.

Notă biografică

Wilbert L. Jenkins is Associate Professor of History at Temple University.