http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/international-emancipation-spring-1862/ remembering freedom for the slaves ... Tue, 14 May 2013 02:27:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/international-emancipation-spring-1862/#comment-652 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:50:19 +0000 http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/?p=2824#comment-652 [...] We sometimes forget that emancipation in the United States took place in a context of emancipation throughout the Western Hemisphere. One of the best recent books that invokes this context is Stephanie McCurry‘s _Confederate Reckoning_, which I highly recommend. In a new post by Donald Shaffer on his excellent blog “Civil War Emancipation” Donald Shaffer talks about the international context of emancipation during the 19th century, “International Emancipation – Spring 1862.” [...]

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