Description: Further DetailsTitle: Imperfect EqualityCondition: NewSubtitle: African Americans and the Confines of White Ideology in Post–Emancipation Maryland.ISBN-10: 0823219623EAN: 9780823219629ISBN: 9780823219629Publisher: Fordham University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/01/1999Description: In Imperfect Equality, Richard Fuke has explores the immediate aftermath of slavery in Maryland, which differed in important ways from the slaveholding states of the South: it never left the Union; white radicals had a period of access to power; and even prior to legal emancipation, a large free black population resided there. Moreover, the presence of Baltimore, a major city and port, provided abundant evidence with which to compare the rural and the urban experience of black Marylanders. This state study is therefore uniquely revealing of the successes and failures of the post-emancipation period. The transition in Maryland from a slave to a free society, Fuke argues, presented to black Marylanders opportunities to achieve previously inaccessible goals. Blacks were able to realize some goals, such as greater land ownership, control over the labor of their children, education, and the formation of independent cultural and social organizations, through their own intrepidity combined with the support of white radicals as well as with the assistance of the Freedmen’s Bureau, the United States Army, and some state-controlled agencies. Other goals—such as social equality, economic opportunity and advancement, and suffrage—remained beyond the reach of blacks, not only because of conservative white opposition, but also, Fuke argues, because of the attitudinal limitations of white radicals unable to confront the full range of post-emancipation possibilities. Calling upon a very broad range of sources, Fuke demonstrates that after emancipation, "Black Marylanders neither enjoyed total freedom nor suffered absolute coercion, but their struggle made two things clear: much of whatever they might accomplish, they would have to do by themselves; and such efforts would remain confined by white attitudes determined to regulate them."Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Richard FukeGenre: HistoryBook Series: Reconstructing AmericaTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 1999 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Imperfect Equality
Title: Imperfect Equality
Subtitle: African Americans and the Confines of White Ideology in Post–Eman
ISBN-10: 0823219623
EAN: 9780823219629
ISBN: 9780823219629
Release Date: 01/01/1999
Release Year: 1999
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Reconstructing America
Edition: 2
Book Title: Imperfect Equality : African Americans and the Confines of White Ideology in Post-Emancipation Maryland
Number of Pages: 307 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / 19th Century, Civil Rights, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, African American
Publication Year: 1999
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Author: Richard Fuke
Item Length: 9 in
Book Series: Reconstructing America Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
