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Focuses on the means employed by former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina to adjust to their status as a free people and to battle attempts by whites to regain control over them. This study attempts to understand how the freedmen saw themselves in the new order and to shed light on their hopes and aspirations.

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Seizing the New Day

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    A Paperback / softback by Wilbert L. Jenkins

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/05/2003
      ISBN13: 9780253216090, 978-0253216090
      ISBN10: 0253216095

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      Book Synopsis
      Focuses on the means employed by former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina to adjust to their status as a free people and to battle attempts by whites to regain control over them. This study attempts to understand how the freedmen saw themselves in the new order and to shed light on their hopes and aspirations.

      Trade Review
      "Seizing the New Day is a good book, carefully researched, logically organized, and clearly written... an excellent model for others who would study change at the local level in this fascinating period of American history. And the volume is handsomely illustrated with well-chosen photographs, drawings, and maps." H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences

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