Claiming Freedom Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia |
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| Author:
| Bell, Karen Cook |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61117-830-2 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2018 |
| Publisher: | University of South Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $39.99USD $41.99 |
Book Description:
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Provides a dynamic analysis of the transition African Americans experienced as they emerged from Civil War slavery, struggled through emancipation, and then forged on to become landowners during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction period in the Georgia lowcountry. Karen Cook Bell's work is a bold study of the political and social strife of these individuals as they strived for freedom.
Provides a dynamic analysis of the transition African Americans experienced as they emerged from Civil War slavery, struggled through emancipation, and then forged on to become landowners during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction period in the Georgia lowcountry. Karen Cook Bell's work is a bold study of the political and social strife of these individuals as they strived for freedom.