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Negotiating Freedom: Reactions to Emancipation in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

Description:

The thesis explores the ways in which residents of West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana experienced and altered race and class boundaries during the process of emancipation. Planters, laborers, and yeoman farmers all viewed emancipation as a jarring series of events and wondered how they would impact...

Author:

Horne, William

Keyword:

labor, plantation, Reconstruction, freedmen, emancipation, and Louisiana

GW Unit:

History

Degree:

M.A.

Advisor:

Zimmerman, Andrew and Anbinder, Tyler

Resource Type:

Thesis or Dissertation