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Freedom Colonies
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Thad Sitton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-03-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory—they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and
Freedom Colonies
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Thad Sitton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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A history of independent African American settlements in Texas during the Jim Crow era, featuring historical and contemporary photographs. In the decades follow
A Colony of Citizens
Language: en
Pages: 467
Authors: Laurent Dubois
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-01 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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The idea of universal rights is often understood as the product of Europe, but as Laurent Dubois demonstrates, it was profoundly shaped by the struggle over sla
Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: A. B. Wilkinson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-06 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms. In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history by investigati
Freedom Time
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Gary Wilder
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-14 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promo