Seizing the New Day(English, Paperback, Jenkins Wilbert L.)

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Seizing the New Day(English, Paperback, Jenkins Wilbert L.) is written by Jenkins Wilbert L. and published by Indiana University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0253216095 (ISBN 10) and 9780253216090 (ISBN 13).

"Seizing the New Day is a good book, carefully researched, logically organized, and clearly written. . . . an excellent model for others who would study change at the local level in this fascinating period of American history. And the volume is handsomely illustrated with well-chosen photographs, drawings, and maps."-H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences For former slaves in Charleston, South Carolina, life was a constant struggle adjusting to freedom while battling whites' attempts to regain control. Using autobiographies, slave narratives, Freedmen's Bureau letters and papers, and other primary documents, Wilbert L. Jenkins attempts to understand how the freedmen saw themselves in the new order and to shed light on their hopes and aspirations. He emphasizes, not the defeat of these aspirations, but rather the victories the freedmen won against white resistance.