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In The Emancipation Circuit Thulani Davis provides a sweeping rethinking of Reconstruction by tracing how the four million people newly freed from bondage created political organizations and connections that mobilized communities across the South. Drawing on the practices of community they developed while enslaved, freedpeople built new settlements and created a network of circuits through which they imagined, enacted, and defended freedom. This interdisciplinary history shows that these circuits linked rural and urban organizations, labor struggles, and political culture with news, strategies, education, and mutual aid. Mapping the emancipation circuits, Davis shows the geography of ideas of freedom---circulating on shipping routes, via army maneuvers, and with itinerant activists---that became the basis for the first mass Black political movement for equal citizenship in the United States. In this work, she reconfigures understandings of the evolution of southern Black political agendas while outlining the origins of the enduring Black freedom struggle from the Jim Crow era to the present.
Contents
List of Maps xi
List of Tables xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Black Political Thought as Shaped in the South 1
1. Flight: Movement Matters 19
2. The Emancipation Circuit: A Road Map 44
3. Virginia: Assembly 80
4. North Carolina: Custody 109
5. South Carolina: Majority 133
6. Georgia: Mobilization 165
7. Florida: Faction 196
8. Alabama: Redemption 217
9. Louisiana: Societies 243
10. Mississippi: Bulldoze 269
11. Arkansas: Minority 294
Conclusion: What Lives On Is Black Political Thought 321
Notes 345
Table Source Notes 393
Bibliography 397
Index 427
