Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation (UnCivil Wars) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820351490 ISBN 13: 9780820351490

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2017

Synopsis

Understanding freedom as process and practice rather than a defining moment

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About the Authors

DAVID W. BLIGHT is a professor of history at Yale University, the director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale, and the author of several books, most recently, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era.

JIM DOWNS is the Gilder Lehrman-National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of History at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction and the coeditor of Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation and Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America.

JUSTIN BEHREND is an assistant professor of history at the State University of New York at Geneseo.

GREG DOWNS has been the least successful high school varsity basketball coach in Tennessee, the editor of a muckraking weekly newspaper on Chicago's South Side, a karaoke performer profiled in the Boston Phoenix, and a reporter on the tail of a fugitive cult leader. A graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he is an assistant professor of history at the City College of New York. Downs's stories have appeared in such publications as Glimmer Train, Meridian, Chicago Reader, and Sycamore Review.

SUSAN EVA O'DONOVAN is an associate professor of history at the University of Memphis. She is the author of Becoming Free in the Cotton South and coeditor of two volumes of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867, part of the ongoing scholarship of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project at the University of Maryland. She is also codirector of the Memphis Massacre Project.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820351490
• ISBN 13: 9780820351490
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Blight David W., Downs Jim