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Illusions of Emancipation examines the period of American liberation as more than a single legal or military event. Building on historical scholarship, the book emphasizes that freed people themselves were central actors in reshaping society. The work discusses how the dismantling of slavery unfolded unevenly across the nation, extending the impact beyond the former slave states into broader social conditions for African Americans. It challenges the notion that emancipation was a quiet or immediate end to bondage, and shows how the struggle for true freedom continued long after formal abolition.
First publish date: 2019
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Joseph P. Reidy
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