Davis Thulani - The Emancipation Circuit Black Activism Forging A Culture Of Freedom - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In The Emancipation Circuit Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political organizations and connections that mobilized communities across the South. Drawing on the practices of community they developed while enslaved freedpeople built new settlements and created a network of circuits through which they imagined enacted and defended freedom. This interdisciplinary history shows that these circuits linked rural and urban organizations labor struggles and political culture with news strategies education and mutual aid. Mapping the emancipation circuits Davis shows the geography of ideas of freedom - - - circulating on shipping routes via army maneuvers and with itinerant activists - - - that became the basis for the first mass Black political movement for equal citizenship in the United States. In this work she reconfigures understandings of the evolution of southern Black political agendas while outlining the origins of the enduring Black freedom struggle from the Jim Crow era to the present.
Title: The Emancipation Circuit Black Activism Forging A Culture Of Freedom
Author(s): Davis Thulani
Publisher: Duke University Press
Barcode: 9781478018193
Pages: 464 Pages, 36 Maps, Including 34 In Color
Publication Date: 6/30/2022
Category: Ethnic Studies