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Seizing the New Day: African Americans in Post-Civil War Charleston Wilbert L. Jenkins
Seizing the New Day: African Americans in Post-Civil War Charleston
Wilbert L. Jenkins
Focuses on the efforts of former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina to adjust to their status as a free people and to battle attempts by whites to regain control over them. This work attempts to understand how the freed men saw themselves in the new order and to examine the conditions of life under Reconstruction.
256 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 22, 1998 |
| ISBN13 | 9780253333803 |
| Publishers | Indiana University Press |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 155 × 235 × 26 mm · 535 g |
| Language | English |