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Author Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956-

Title Emancipation's diaspora [electronic resource] : race and reconstruction in the upper Midwest / Leslie A. Schwalm.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 387 p. : ill., maps, photgraphs.
Series John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-373) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780807832912 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807859506 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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