Claiming Freedom - 9781611178302

Claiming FreedomRace, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia\nAuthor(s): Karen Cook Bell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of South Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: University of South Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781611178302, 978-1611178302\nSynopsis\nClaiming Freedom is a noteworthy and dynamic analysis of the transition African Americans experienced as they emerged from Civil War slavery, struggled through emancipation, and then forged on to become landowners during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction period in the Georgia lowcountry. Karen Cook Bells work is a bold study of the political and social strife of these individuals as they strived for and claimed freedom during the nineteenth century.\n\nBell begins by examining the meaning of freedom through the delineation of acts of self-emancipation prior to the Civil War. Consistent with the autonomy that they experienced as slaves, the emancipated African Americans from the rice region understood citiz.