Schwalm, Leslie A. 1956-

Emancipation's diaspora race and reconstruction in the upper Midwest / [electronic resource] : Leslie A. Schwalm. - 1st ed. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009. - xii, 387 p. : ill., maps, photgraphs. - John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture . - John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-373) and index.

A full realization of the barbarities of slavery -- A time of scattering -- Overrun with free Negroes: the politics of wartime emancipation and -- Migration in the upper Midwest -- To go and help be free: migration and the black military experience -- The building up of our race: creating a life in freedom -- Freedom was all they had: civil rights and northern reconstruction -- Agonizing groans of mothers and slave-scarred veterans: history -- Commemoration, and memoir in the aftermath of slavery.


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African Americans--History--Wisconsin--19th century.
Freedmen--History--Iowa--19th century.
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Freedmen--History--Wisconsin--19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)


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