'Debating Exodus in the Reconstruction South: Changing Attitudes among the Republican Grassroots

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Description

Panel [organized by BK] as follows

BLACK AGENCY, MOBILITY AND FLIGHT AT THE ‘NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM’.
Chair: Bernard Powers, Jr., College of Charleston, Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston

Participants:
Wars for Place-Making and the Flipside of Mobility in Westward Freedpeople’s Camps. Mycah Lynn Conner, Harvard University

Debating Exodus in the Reconstruction South: Changing Attitudes among the Republican Grassroots. Brian Kelly, Queen’s University Belfast [After Slavery Project]

‘Liberia Fever’ in the Deep South: African-American Emigration Organizing After Reconstruction, 1877 – 1885. Matthew Law, Clark University

Commentator:
Bernard Powers, Jr., College of Charleston, Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston
Period03 Oct 2019
Event title104th Annual Meeting Association for Study of African American Life and History: Black History, Black Migrations
Event typeConference
LocationCharleston, United States, South CarolinaShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • African American History
  • Migration
  • Labour History
  • US Civil War
  • Emancipation
  • US Reconstruction

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