Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery

by Joseph P. Reidy

Book Overview

As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865. It was a process that required more than legal or military action. With enslaved people fully engaged as actors, emancipation necessitated a fundamental reordering of a way of life whose implications stretched well beyond the former slave states. Slavery did not die quietly or quickly, nor did freedom...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146966156X
• ISBN13: 9781469661568
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"