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The Emancipation Circuit
Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom
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English
Published/Copyright:
2022
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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.
Author / Editor information
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.
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“In this spectacular book Thulani Davis presents a framework for not only rewriting the Civil War and Reconstruction, but for understanding the entire history of the Black freedom movement extending into the twentieth century. As groundbreaking as W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction, The Emancipation Circuit is a masterpiece.”
-- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression
"The Emancipation Circuit offers a powerful reimagining of the networks that helped to secure Black freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction: It is a history about enslaved people’s efforts to free themselves and about their local struggles to give substance to their legal emancipation, as well as a mapping of the geography that enabled their achievements and the circuits that spread their political goals like pollen in the wind. . . . The Emancipation Circuit reminds today’s activists that any organizing for Black freedom must be multifaceted and must pursue local aims while traveling along preexisting networks to become a broader collective effort."
-- Elias Rodriques The Nation
"Thulani Davis’s The Emancipation Circuit is an important contribution to Black social and political thought that helps center Black women and Black resistance of United States history and social movements."
-- Krystal Batelaan Ethnic and Racial Studies
"The Emancipation Circuit provides a convincing analysis of the spatial history of emancipation ... a valuable reference for future research."
-- Keith D. McCall Journal of Southern History
"By documenting the emergence of Black political, religious, and labor organizations, the development of channels for transmission of ideas and news, and conflicts and tensions, The Emancipation Circuit adds nuance to our understanding of the development of Black political thought and shows how its unique attributes continue to influence Black politics today."
-- Kevin R. Johnson Journal of American History
-- Kevin R. Johnson Journal of American History
"The Emancipation Circuit is an exciting and important book. Demonstrating an adroit dexterity with the secondary literature, Davis has provided future historians with a roadmap that for far too long has hid in plain sight. Bringing a poet’s eye to the quotidian details of the Civil War–era Black world, Thulani Davis provides an innovative reinterpretation of the world freedpeople and Black northerners made together."
-- Robert D. Bland Journal of African American History
-- Robert D. Bland Journal of African American History
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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LIST OF MAPS
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LIST OF TABLES
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Introduction: Black Political Thought as Shaped in the South
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1 Flight: Movement Matters
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2 The Emancipation Circuit: A Road Map
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3 Virginia: Assembly
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4 North Carolina: Custody
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5 South Carolina: Majority
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6 Georgia: Mobilization
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7 Florida: Faction
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8 Alabama: Redemption
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9 Louisiana: Societies
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10 Mississippi: Bulldoze
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11 Arkansas: Minority
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Conclusion: What Lives On Is Black Political Thought
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Notes
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TABLE Source Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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