{"product_id":"the-emancipation-circuit-9781478018193","title":"The Emancipation Circuit","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this spectacular book Thulani Davis presents a framework for not only rewriting the Civil War and Reconstruction, but for understanding the entire history of the Black freedom movement extending into the twentieth century. As groundbreaking as W. E. B. Du Bois’s \u003ci\u003eBlack Reconstruction\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Emancipation Circuit\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece.” -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of * Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Emancipation Circuit\u003c\/i\u003e offers a powerful reimagining of the networks that helped to secure Black freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction: It is a history about enslaved people’s efforts to free themselves and about their local struggles to give substance to their legal emancipation, as well as a mapping of the geography that enabled their achievements and the circuits that spread their political goals like pollen in the wind. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Emancipation Circuit\u003c\/i\u003e reminds today’s activists that any organizing for Black freedom must be multifaceted and must pursue local aims while traveling along preexisting networks to become a broader collective effort.\" -- Elias Rodriques * The Nation *\u003cbr\u003e\"Thulani Davis’s \u003ci\u003eThe Emancipation Circuit\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to Black social and political thought that helps center Black women and Black resistance of United States history and social movements.\" -- Krystal Batelaan * Ethnic and Racial Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Emancipation Circuit\u003c\/i\u003e provides a convincing analysis of the spatial history of emancipation ... a valuable reference for future research.\" -- Keith D. McCall * Journal of Southern History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Maps  xi\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Black Political Thought as Shaped in the South  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Flight: Movement Matters  19\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Emancipation Circuit: A Road Map  44\u003cbr\u003e 3. Virginia: Assembly  80\u003cbr\u003e 4. North Carolina: Custody  109\u003cbr\u003e 5. South Carolina: Majority  133\u003cbr\u003e 6. Georgia: Mobilization  165\u003cbr\u003e 7. Florida: Faction  196\u003cbr\u003e 8. Alabama: Redemption  217\u003cbr\u003e 9. Louisiana: Societies  243\u003cbr\u003e 10. Mississippi: Bulldoze  269\u003cbr\u003e 11. Arkansas: Minority  294\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: What Lives On Is Black Political Thought  321\u003cbr\u003e Notes  345\u003cbr\u003e Table Source Notes  393\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  397\u003cbr\u003e Index  427","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409007944023,"sku":"9781478018193","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478018193.jpg?v=1730505068","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-emancipation-circuit-9781478018193","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}