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ISBN-10: 1478018194
ISBN-13: 9781478018193
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 06/30/2022
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 0.97" H

The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom

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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.

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"In this spectacular book Thulani Davis presents a framework for not only rewriting the Civil War and Reconstruction, but for understanding the entire history of the Black freedom movement extending into the twentieth century. As groundbreaking as W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction, The Emancipation Circuit is a masterpiece."–Robin D. G. Kelley, author of "Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression"
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ISBN-10: 1478018194
ISBN-13: 9781478018193
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: 06/30/2022
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.00" W, 0.97" H
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