Beyond Freedom

Disrupting the History of Emancipation

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, Civil Rights, History, Americas, United States, 19th Century, Social Science, Discrimination & Race Relations
Cover of the book Beyond Freedom by Brenda Stevenson, Greg Downs, Carole Emberton, Eric Foner, Justin Behrend, Thavolia Glymph, Hannah Rosen, James Oakes, Chandra Manning, Kate Masur, Richard Newman, Susan Eva O'Donovan, University of Georgia Press
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Author: Brenda Stevenson, Greg Downs, Carole Emberton, Eric Foner, Justin Behrend, Thavolia Glymph, Hannah Rosen, James Oakes, Chandra Manning, Kate Masur, Richard Newman, Susan Eva O'Donovan ISBN: 9780820351476
Publisher: University of Georgia Press Publication: November 1, 2017
Imprint: University of Georgia Press Language: English
Author: Brenda Stevenson, Greg Downs, Carole Emberton, Eric Foner, Justin Behrend, Thavolia Glymph, Hannah Rosen, James Oakes, Chandra Manning, Kate Masur, Richard Newman, Susan Eva O'Donovan
ISBN: 9780820351476
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication: November 1, 2017
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Language: English

This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of constraint and a widening of personal choice, or did it extend to the ballot box, to education, to equality of opportunity? In examining such questions, rather than defining every aspect of postemancipation life as a new form of freedom, these essays develop the work of scholars who are looking at how belonging to an empowered government or community defines the outcome of emancipation.

Some essays in this collection disrupt the traditional story and time-frame of emancipation. Others offer trenchant renderings of emancipation, with new interpretations of the language and politics of democracy. Still others sidestep academic conventions to speak personally about the politics of emancipation historiography, reconsidering how historians have used source material for understanding subjects such as violence and the suffering of refugee women and children. Together the essays show that the question of freedom—its contested meanings, its social relations, and its beneficiaries—remains central to understanding the complex historical process known as emancipation.

Contributors: Justin Behrend, Gregory P. Downs, Jim Downs, Carole Emberton, Eric Foner, Thavolia Glymph, Chandra Manning, Kate Masur, Richard Newman, James Oakes, Susan O’Donovan, Hannah Rosen, Brenda E. Stevenson.

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This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of constraint and a widening of personal choice, or did it extend to the ballot box, to education, to equality of opportunity? In examining such questions, rather than defining every aspect of postemancipation life as a new form of freedom, these essays develop the work of scholars who are looking at how belonging to an empowered government or community defines the outcome of emancipation.

Some essays in this collection disrupt the traditional story and time-frame of emancipation. Others offer trenchant renderings of emancipation, with new interpretations of the language and politics of democracy. Still others sidestep academic conventions to speak personally about the politics of emancipation historiography, reconsidering how historians have used source material for understanding subjects such as violence and the suffering of refugee women and children. Together the essays show that the question of freedom—its contested meanings, its social relations, and its beneficiaries—remains central to understanding the complex historical process known as emancipation.

Contributors: Justin Behrend, Gregory P. Downs, Jim Downs, Carole Emberton, Eric Foner, Thavolia Glymph, Chandra Manning, Kate Masur, Richard Newman, James Oakes, Susan O’Donovan, Hannah Rosen, Brenda E. Stevenson.

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