The Emancipation Circuit
Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2022
464 pages
978-1-4780-2280-0 (ISBN)
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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.
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Thulani Davis is a professor and a Nellie Y. McKay Fellow in the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-first Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots. A poet and longtime writer for theater, film, and journalism, Davis has been a recipient of a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Writers Award, a PEW Foundation National Theatre Artist Residency, and a Charles H. Revson Fellowship on the Future of New York City.
Content
List of Maps xi
List of Tables xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Black Political Thought as Shaped in the South 1
1. Flight: Movement Matters 19
2. The Emancipation Circuit: A Road Map 44
3. Virginia: Assembly 80
4. North Carolina: Custody 109
5. South Carolina: Majority 133
6. Georgia: Mobilization 165
7. Florida: Faction 196
8. Alabama: Redemption 217
9. Louisiana: Societies 243
10. Mississippi: Bulldoze 269
11. Arkansas: Minority 294
Conclusion: What Lives On Is Black Political Thought 321
Notes 345
Table Source Notes 393
Bibliography 397
Index 427
List of Tables xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Black Political Thought as Shaped in the South 1
1. Flight: Movement Matters 19
2. The Emancipation Circuit: A Road Map 44
3. Virginia: Assembly 80
4. North Carolina: Custody 109
5. South Carolina: Majority 133
6. Georgia: Mobilization 165
7. Florida: Faction 196
8. Alabama: Redemption 217
9. Louisiana: Societies 243
10. Mississippi: Bulldoze 269
11. Arkansas: Minority 294
Conclusion: What Lives On Is Black Political Thought 321
Notes 345
Table Source Notes 393
Bibliography 397
Index 427
