Bibliograph

Seizing the new day, African Americans in post-Civil War Charleston, Wilbert Jenkins

Type

Label

Seizing the new day, African Americans in post-Civil War Charleston, Wilbert Jenkins

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Seizing the new day

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Wilbert Jenkins

Series statement

Blacks in the diaspora

Sub title

African Americans in post-Civil War Charleston

Summary

For former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina, life was a constant struggle adjusting to freedom while battling whites' attempts to regain control. Using autobiographies, slave narratives, Freedmen's Bureau letters and papers, and other primary documents, Wilbert L. Jenkins attempts to understand how the freedmen saw themselves in the new order and to shed light on their hopes and aspirations. He emphasizes, not the defeat of these aspirations, but rather the victories the freedmen won against white resistance

Target audience

adult

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