Happy Dreams of Liberty
An American Family in Slavery and Freedom
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Becsült beszerzési idő: Várható beérkezés: 2026. január vége.
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- Kiadó OUP USA
- Megjelenés dátuma 2025. április 23.
- ISBN 9780197786574
- Kötéstípus Puhakötés
- Terjedelem336 oldal
- Méret 226x150x25 mm
- Súly 476 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 20 black and white illustrations 656
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Rövid leírás:
A beautifully narrated and rich saga of one family's journey from slavery to freedom--and from the South to the North and West--set against Americans' changing attitudes towards mixed-race people from the late antebellum period to the Jim Crow era.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow.
When Samuel Townsend died at his home in Madison County, Alabama, in November 1856, the fifty-two-year-old white planter left behind hundreds of slaves, thousands of acres of rich cotton land, and a net worth of approximately $200,000. In life, Samuel had done little to distinguish himself from other members of the South's elite slaveholding class. But he made a name for himself in death by leaving almost the entirety of his fortune to his five sons, four daughters, and two nieces: all of them his slaves.
In this deeply researched, movingly narrated portrait of the extended Townsend family, R. Isabela Morales reconstructs the migration of this mixed-race family across the American West and South over the second half of the nineteenth century. Searching for communities where they could exercise their newfound freedom and wealth to the fullest, members of the family homesteaded and attended college in Ohio and Kansas; fought for the Union Army in Mississippi; mined for silver in the Colorado Rockies; and, in the case of one son, returned to Alabama to purchase part of the old plantation where he had once been held as a slave. In Morales's telling, the Townsends' story maps a new landscape of opportunity and oppression, where the meanings of race and freedom--as well as opportunities for social and economic mobility--were dictated by highly local circumstances.
During the turbulent period between the Civil War and the rise of Jim Crow at the turn of the twentieth century, the Townsends carved out spaces where they were able to benefit from their money and mixed-race ancestry, pass down generational wealth, and realize some of their happy dreams of liberty.
While there are a number of books that feature families of mixed African and European descent in the United States, Happy Dreams of Liberty is an invaluable addition that uncovers both the advantages and hardships that one family experienced in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Historian R. Isabela Morales tells a captivating story.... A highlight of this book features the voices of the mixed-heritage Townsends through their surviving letters.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Acknowledgments
Note on Quotations
Introduction
Chapter 1: This Happy, Free, and Flourishing Country
Chapter 2: The Strangest Will He Ever Knew a Sensible Man to Make
Chapter 3: Where Shall the Free Negro Go?
Chapter 4: I Ain't Satisfied Here At All
Chapter 5: Some One of Us Will Have It Good
Chapter 6: Who Hasn't Yearned To Be Home?
Epilogue: So Much for Freedom
Note on Writing
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
