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Abstract
Drawing upon substantial archival research, this article explores the contours of Black working-class life and politics in one of the most important urban centres in the post-emancipation South: Charleston, South Carolina. The citadel of white proslavery ideology in the antebellum period. Charleston—with a large and combative Black majority—became after the Civil War home to an assertive Black-led labor movement, driven into the public sphere to seek not only civil and political equality but social and economic justice. The defeat of Reconstruction in the mid-1870s signalled not only the return to power of white supremacists, but also marked the beginning of a painful retreat on the part of the city's Black labourers.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Black urban history at the crossroads: race and place in the American city |
Editors | Leslie M. Harris, Clarence Lang, Rhonda Y. Williams, Joe William Trotter Jr |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Chapter | 4 |
Pages | 97-120 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780822991359 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780822948162 |
Publication status | Published - 01 Oct 2024 |
Keywords
- emancipation
- Slavery
- South Carolina
- American Reconstruction
- African Americans
- labor
- Racism
- Social class
- Urban History
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R1765HIS: After slavery: Race, labour and politics in the post-emancipation Carolinas
Kelly, B. (PI)
01/08/2005 → …
Project: Research
Activities
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From the Slaves' Jubilee to White 'Redemption' in the Holy City: Black Life in Charleston, 1865-1900
Kelly, B. (Invited speaker)
08 Oct 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Press/Media
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Steering Committee: Jubilee Project (Charleston, SC)
01/04/2012
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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‘Storm beyond control’: black workers, the Republican Party and class conflict in reconstruction South Carolina
Kelly, B., 01 May 2024, (Accepted) Class, race, and space in the US south: essays in the political economy of race. Melcher, C., Cyna, E. & Mateo, O. (eds.). Brill, 34 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Slave self-activity and the bourgeois revolution in the United States: jubilee and the boundaries of black freedom
Kelly, B., 01 Dec 2019, In: Historical Materialism. 27, 3, p. 31-76 43 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Difficult labor: troublesome company at the new birth of freedom
Kelly, B., 05 Dec 2016, In: Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society. 19, p. 474-478 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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