Former slaves, with no prior experience in electoral politics and with few economic resources or little significant social standing, created a sweeping political movement that transformed the South after the Civil War. Within a few short years after emancipation, not only were black men voting but they had elected thousands of ex-slaves to political offices. Historians have long noted the role of African American slaves in the fight for their emancipation and their many efforts to secure t...

This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did freedom mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Did freedom just mean the absence of constraint and a widening of personal choice, or did it extend to the ballot box, to education, to equality of opportunity? In examining such questions, rather than defining every aspect of postem...

Große Gefühle zur WeihnachtszeitWas ist romantischer als die Weihnachtszeit? Egal wo, auf der ganzen Welt knistert es. Jede Geschichte in diesem Adventskalender verzaubert mit einem wunderbar weihnachtlichen Setting. Denn die große Liebe findet man überall: beim Spaziergang über den verschneiten Adventsmarkt in Straßburg, beim eisigen Winterschwimmen in Wales oder am Strand in Brasilien unter der Weihnachtspalme. Hinter jedem Türchen wartet eine exklusive, wundersc...