Growing up with the country : family, race, and nation after the civil war / Kendra Taira Field.
'Growing Up with the Country' documents the migration of freedom's first generation out of the South and into the West after the Civil War. A narrative history, the text traces three of the author's ancestors and their successive migrations in the half-century after emancipation.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Lamar series in western history.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One: "Intruder of Color": Freedom, Sovereignty, and Kinship in Indian Territory
- Two: Passing for Black: White Kinfolk, "Mulatto" Freedpeople, and Westward Migration
- Three: "He Dreamed of Africa": Kinship, Class, and Peoplehood
- Four: "No Such Thing as Stand Still": The Chief Sam Movement and the "African Pioneers"
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index.