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Emancipation and Reconstruction on New Ground - Leslie A. Schwalm Emancipation's Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xii + 387 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-5950-6.

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Leslie A. Schwalm Emancipation's Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xii + 387 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8078-5950-6.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2011

Alison Clark Efford
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Marquette University

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References

1 Schwalm, Leslie A., A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (Urbana, 1997)Google Scholar.

2 More typical of the northern state studies is Dykstra, Robert R., Bright Radical Star: Black Freedom and White Supremacy on the Hawkeye Frontier (Cambridge, MA, 1993)Google Scholar.

3 Blight, David, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Cambridge, MA, 2001)Google Scholar; Stanley, Amy Dru, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (New York, 1998)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Roediger, David, Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (New York, 1991)Google Scholar. A recent historiographical essay observes that histories of the postwar North have focused on labor and the state: Richardson, Heather Cox, “North and West of Reconstruction: Studies in Political Economy” in Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States, ed. Brown, Thomas J. (New York, 2006), 6690Google Scholar.