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"Some Satisfactory Way": Lincoln And Black Freedom In The District Of Columbia, Edna Greene Medford
"Some Satisfactory Way": Lincoln And Black Freedom In The District Of Columbia, Edna Greene Medford
Edna Greene Medford
On April 16, 1862, sixty-one-year-old Nicholas became a freeman. Prior to his emancipation, Nicholas had lived and labored as a slave in the nations capital, where freemen professed to honor the principles espoused in the Declaration of Independence. It would take congressional action and the president's concurrence to elevate Nicholas and his fellow African Americans from chattel to umankind. Even then, his worth and that of the more than 3,000 other men, women, and children who gained their freedom by the statute was measured in strictly economic terms.
Reviewed Work: Lincoln Revisited: New Insights From The Lincoln Forum By John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, Dawn Vogel, Edna Greene Medford
Reviewed Work: Lincoln Revisited: New Insights From The Lincoln Forum By John Y. Simon, Harold Holzer, Dawn Vogel, Edna Greene Medford
Edna Greene Medford
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Lincoln And The Constitutional Dilemma Of Emancipation, Edna Greene Medford
Lincoln And The Constitutional Dilemma Of Emancipation, Edna Greene Medford
Edna Greene Medford
On the afternoon of January 1,1863, following nearly two years of bloody civil war, Abraham Lincoln set in motion events that would reconnect the detached cord of Union and that would begin to reconcile the nation's practices to its avowed democratic principles.
Reviewed Work Educating The Disfranchised And Disinherited Samuel Chapman Armstrong And Hampton Institute, 1839-1893 By Robert Francis Engs, Edna Greene Medford
Reviewed Work Educating The Disfranchised And Disinherited Samuel Chapman Armstrong And Hampton Institute, 1839-1893 By Robert Francis Engs, Edna Greene Medford
Edna Greene Medford
No abstract provided.
Reviewed Work: From Swastika To Jim Crow: Refugee Scholars At Black Colleges By Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb, Edna Greene Medford
Reviewed Work: From Swastika To Jim Crow: Refugee Scholars At Black Colleges By Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb, Edna Greene Medford
Edna Greene Medford
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Land And Labor: The Quest For Black Economic Independence On Virginia's Lower Peninsula, 1865-1880, Edna Greene Medford
Land And Labor: The Quest For Black Economic Independence On Virginia's Lower Peninsula, 1865-1880, Edna Greene Medford
Edna Greene Medford
Until quite recently, most of what we knew about antebellum slavery and the African-American experience in the postwar years resulted from generalizations regarding the cotton South. The tendency to focus on the heart of Dixie failed to take into account certain economic realities in the Upper South that shaped experiences under slavery and influenced freedpeople's adaptation to a new order.