Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations

Edited by Whitney Nell Stewart and John Garrison Marks

Foreword by Julie Saville

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Pages: 224

Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in

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Pub Date: 04/15/2018

ISBN: 9-780-8203-5311-1

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Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations

Edited by Whitney Nell Stewart and John Garrison Marks

Foreword by Julie Saville

New essays that examine emancipation strategies throughout the Atlantic World

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Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation was an Atlantic event, it has been studied most often in geographically isolated ways. The justification for such local investigations rests in the notion that imperial and national contexts are essential to understanding slaving regimes. Just as the experience of slavery differed throughout the Atlantic World, so too did the experience of emancipation, as enslaved people’s paths to freedom varied depending on time and place.

With the essays in this volume, historians contend that emancipation was not something that simply happened to enslaved peoples but rather something in which they actively participated. By viewing local experiences through an Atlantic framework, the contributors reveal how emancipation was both a shared experience across national lines and one shaped by the particularities of a specific nation. Their examination uncovers, in detail, the various techniques employed by people of African descent across the Atlantic World, allowing a broader picture of their paths to freedom.

Contributors: Ikuko Asaka, Caree A. Banton, Celso Thomas Castilho, Gad Heuman, Martha S. Jones, Philip Kaisary, John Garrison Marks, Paul J. Polgar, James E. Sanders, Julie Saville, Matthew Spooner, Whitney Nell Stewart, and Andrew N. Wegmann.

Ikuko Asaka

Caree A. Banton

Celso Thomas Castilho

Gad Heuman

Martha S. Jones

Philip Kaisary

Paul J Polgar

James E Sanders

Matthew Spooner

Andrew N. Wegmann

About the Author/Editor

Whitney Stewart (Editor)
WHITNEY NELL STEWART is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Dallas.

John Garrison Marks (Editor)
JOHN GARRISON MARKS is the external relations coordinator for the American Association for State and Local History based in Nashville, Tennessee.