{"product_id":"to-walk-about-in-freedom-the-long-emancipation-of-priscilla-joyner-9781324050278","title":"To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner","description":"\u003cp\u003ePriscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North Carolina and came of age at the dawn of emancipation. Raised by a white slaveholding woman, Joyner never knew the truth about her parentage. She grew up isolated and unsure of who she was and where she belonged--feelings that no emancipation proclamation could assuage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer life story--candidly recounted in an oral history for the Federal Writers' Project--captures the intimate nature of freedom. Using Joyner's interview and the interviews of other formerly enslaved people, historian Carole Emberton uncovers the deeply personal, emotional journeys of freedom's charter generation--the people born into slavery who walked into a new world of freedom during the Civil War. From the seemingly mundane to the most vital, emancipation opened up a myriad of new possibilities: what to wear and where to live, what jobs to take and who to love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough Joyner was educated at a Freedmen's Bureau school and married a man she loved, slavery cast a long shadow. Uncertainty about her parentage haunted her life, and as Jim Crow took hold throughout the South, segregation, disfranchisement, and racial violence threatened the loving home she made for her family. But through it all, she found beauty in the world and added to it where she could.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeaving together illuminating voices from the charter generation, \u003cem\u003eTo Walk About in Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e gives us a kaleidoscopic look at the lived experiences of emancipation and challenges us to think anew about the consequences of failing to reckon with the afterlife of slavery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmberton, Carole:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eCarole Emberton\u003c\/strong\u003e is professor of history at the University at Buffalo. An NEH public scholar, she is the author of the prize-winning \u003ci\u003eBeyond Redemption\u003c\/i\u003e. She has written for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50508757926162,"sku":"9781324050278","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b42cbbeb-4874-4e62-897f-f376fbe9e547.jpg?v=1747127992","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/to-walk-about-in-freedom-the-long-emancipation-of-priscilla-joyner-9781324050278","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}