Organizing Freedom: Black Emancipation Activism in the Civil War Midwest Bloomsbury Publishing As a single father

As a single father

such an ideology did not recognize classes or races of men automatically excluded from citizenship

Their story is one of by-the-bootstraps resolve

maturing and adapting within new environments

This ain't no damn poetry contest

Organizing Freedom: Black Emancipation Activism in the Civil War Midwest Bloomsbury Publishing As a single fatherOrganizing Freedom is a riveting and significant social history of black emancipation activism in Indiana and Illinois during the Civil War era. By enlarging the definition of emancipation to include black activism, author Jennifer R. Harbour details the aggressive, tenacious defiance through which Midwestern African Americansparticularly black womenmade freedom tangible for themselves. Despite banning slavery, Illinois and Indiana share an antebellum