African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom: Dying Free during the Civil War and Reconstruction 1666905712, 9781666905717

This innovative book examines how African Americans in the South made sense of the devastating loss of life unleashed by

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African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom: Dying Free during the Civil War and Reconstruction
1666905712, 9781666905717

This anthology brings together the late Barry A. Crouch's most important articles on the African American experienc

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In Becoming American under Fire, Christian G. Samito provides a rich account of how African American and Irish American

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New Masters: Northern Planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction, analyzes the North’s efforts to transform the So

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"Stephen Atkins Swails played significant roles in the Civil War and Reconstruction in South Carolina. Born a free

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Gender and the Jubilee is a bold reconceptualization of black freedom during the Civil War that uncovers the political a

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On April 12, 1864, a small Union force occupying Fort Pillow, Tennessee, a fortress located on the Mississippi River jus

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Describes the society and the institutions that went down during the Civil War and Reconstruction and the internal condi

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Personal rights, such as the right to procreate - or not -and the right to die generate endless debate. This book maps o

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In early 1864, as the Confederate Army of Tennessee licked its wounds after being routed at the Battle of Chattanooga, M

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of

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