I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era by David Williams

I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era

David Williams

275 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in the Civil War era. However, David Williams suggests that this portrayal marginalizes the role that ...

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