Beyond freedom : disrupting the history of emancipation / edited by David W. Blight and Jim Downs.

Contributor Blight, David W. editor, contributor.

Imprint:Athens : The University of Georgia Press, c2017.

Descriptionxvi, 190 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Prologue / Eric Foner -- Introduction / David W. Blight, Gregory P. Downs, and Jim Downs -- From slavery to freedom: the grammar of emancipation: putting final freedom in context / Richard Newman -- Writing slavery into freedom's stories / Susan E. O'Donovan -- "Us never had no big funerals or weddin's on de place": ritualizing Black marriage in the wake of freedom / Brenda E. Stevenson -- Emancipation as state building from the inside out / Chandra Manning -- The politics of freedom: the problem of equality in the age of emancipation / Kate Masur -- When neighbors turn against neighbors: irregular warfare and the crisis of democracy in the Civil War era / Justin Behrend -- When everybody knew / James Oakes -- Meditations on the meaning of freedom: Black women and children in the Civil War: archive notes / Thavolia Glymph -- "Cleaning up the mess": some thoughts on freedom, violence, and grief / Carole Emberton -- In the moment of violence: writing the history of postemancipation terror / Hannah Rosen -- Emancipating the evidence: the ontology of the Freedmen's Bureau records / Jim Downs

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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