To Walk About in Freedom

The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner

To Walk About in Freedom
Carole Emberton
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 272pg
22 Apr 2022 US
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9781324001829
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Priscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858. Her life story, which she recounted in an oral history decades later, captures the complexity of emancipation. Based on interviews that Joyner and formerly enslaved people had with the Depression-era Federal Writers Project, historian Carole Emberton draws a portrait of the steps they took in order to feel free, something no legal mandate could instill. Joyner' s life exemplifies the deeply personal, highly emotional nature of freedom and the decisions people made, from the seemingly mundane to the formidable: what to wear, where to live, what work to do, and who to love. Joyner' s story reveals the many paths forged by freedmen and freedwomen to find joy and belonging during Reconstruction, despite the long shadow slavery cast on their lives.
To Walk About in Freedom is truly a must read for anyone interested in seeing not only the nation' s racial past in a fresh light thanks to Emberton' s brilliant re-mining, re-excavation, re-reading, and re-interpretation of the lives of the newly freed, but also in being able to come to all previous renderings of it better informed and to view them with a far more critical gaze. --Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water
Carole Emberton is associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo. A National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar, she is the author of the prize-winning Beyond Redemption. She has written for the New York Times and the Washington Post, and lives in Buffalo, New York.
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ISBN-13: 9781324001829
Published: 22 Apr 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 272

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