Emancipation's Diaspora

Race And Reconstruction In The Upper Midwest

BY LESLIE SCHWALM

Brief Description:
Quaker Leslie Schwalm follows the lives and experiences of thousands of men and women who liberated themselves from slavery, made their way to overwhelmingly white communities in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and worked to live in dignity as free women and men and as citizens. She explores the hotly contested politics of black enfranchisement as well as segregation, civil rights. She examines how gender shaped the politics of race, and how gender relations were contested and negotiated within the black community. Based on extensive archival research.

University of N Carolina Press 2009 385 PP. Paper

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