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Festivals of freedom : memory and meaning in African American emancipation celebrations, 1808-1915
- Title
- Festivals of freedom : memory and meaning in African American emancipation celebrations, 1808-1915 / Mitch Kachun.
- Author
- Kachun, Mitchell A. (Mitchell Alan)
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2003.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 339 p. cm.
- Subject
- Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Anniversaries, etc. > United States
- African Americans > Anniversaries, etc
- African Americans > Politics and government > 19th century
- African Americans > Politics and government > 20th century
- Political culture > United States > History > 19th century
- Political culture > United States > History > 20th century
- Festivals > United States > History > 19th century
- Festivals > United States > History > 20th century
- Memory > Social aspects > History. > United States
- Memory > Political aspects > History. > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-326) and index.
- Contents
- "A day of publick thanksgiving" : foundations, 1808-1834 -- "A borrowed day of jubilee" : maturation, 1834-1862 -- "An American celebration" : expansion and fragmentation, 1862-1870s -- "Let children's children never forget" : remembrance and amnesia, 1870s-1910s -- "Lessons of emancipation for a new generation" : reorientation, 1860s-1900s -- "A great occasion for display" : contestation in Washington, D.C., 1860s-1900s -- "The faith that the dark past has taught us" : dissolution, 1900-1920.
- Call Number
- Sc E 03-1437
- ISBN
- 1558494073 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003002465
- OCLC
- 51647832
- Author
- Kachun, Mitchell A. (Mitchell Alan)
- Title
- Festivals of freedom : memory and meaning in African American emancipation celebrations, 1808-1915 / Mitch Kachun.
- Imprint
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-326) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 03-1437