Description: I Freed Myself : African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era, Hardcover by Williams, David, ISBN 1107016495, ISBN-13 9781107016491, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "African Americans' Struggle for Freedom in the Civil War Era For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in the Civil War era. However, David Williams suggests that this portrayal marginalizes the role that African American slaves played in freeing themselves. At the Civil War's outset, Lincoln made clear his intent was to save the Union rather than free slaves - despite his personal distaste for slavery, he claimed no authority to interfere with the institution. By the second year of the war, though, when the Union army was in desperate need of black support, former slaves who escaped to Union lines struck a bargain: they would fight for the Union only if they were granted their freedom. Williams importantly demonstrates that freedom was not simply the absence of slavery but rather a dynamic process enacted by self-emancipated African American refugees, which compelled Lincoln to modify his war aims andplace black freedom at the center of his wartime policies"--
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Book Title: I Freed Myself : African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil
Number of Pages: 278 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: I Freed Myself : African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Presidents & Heads of State, United States / General, African American
Publication Year: 2014
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Biography & Autobiography, History
Author: David Williams
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
