African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom: Dying Free During the Civil War and Reconstruction

This innovative book examines how African Americans in the South made sense of the devastating loss of...
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Author: Ashley Towle
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African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom: Dying Free During the Civil War and Reconstruction by Towle, Ashley

African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom: Dying Free During the Civil War and Reconstruction

$358.63

African Americans, Death, and the New Birth of Freedom: Dying Free During the Civil War and Reconstruction

$358.63
Author: Ashley Towle
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
This innovative book examines how African Americans in the South made sense of the devastating loss of life unleashed by the Civil War and emancipation. During and after the war, African Americans died in vast numbers from battle, disease, and racial violence. While freedom was a momentous event for the formerly enslaved, it was also deadly. Through an investigation into how African Americans reacted to and coped with the passing away of loved ones and community members, Ashley Towle argues that freedpeople gave credence to their free status through their experiences with mortality. African Americans harnessed the power of death in a variety of arenas, including within the walls of national and private civilian cemeteries, in applications for widows' pensions, in the pulpits of black churches, around séance tables, on the witness stand at congressional hearings, and in the columns of African American newspapers. In the process of mourning the demise of kith and kin, black people reconstituted their families, forged communal bonds, and staked claims to citizenship, civil rights, and racial justice from the federal government. In a society upended by civil war and emancipation, death was political.

Author: Ashley Towle
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 11/22/2022
Pages: 201
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781666905717

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