This innovative volume highlights the quite different ways in which men andwomen achieved freedom and faced the possibility of citizenship inpostemancipation so... » 

This innovative volume highlights the quite different ways in which men andwomen achieved freedom and faced the possibility of citizenship inpostemancipation societies. By examining ideologies of gender as well asdifferences in experiences the contributing authors broaden our understandingof emancipation as a transformative process. By placing women of color at thecenter of the analysis moreover many of these authors develop a new pictureof the dynamics of emancipation.Rebecca Scott author of Degrees ofFreedom Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery «