The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom

by Thulani Davis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478018194
• ISBN13: 9781478018193
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"