Rebecca Capobianco Toy 
Landscapes of Freedom [EPUB ebook] 
Restoring the History of Emancipation and Citizenship in Yorktown, Virginia, 1861–1940

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Revelations of the profound effect and long legacy of America’s post–Civil War Reconstruction

In Landscapes of Freedom, Rebecca Capobianco Toy tells the story of an emblematic community of freedpeople during the Civil War era. Some of the earliest acts of wartime emancipation happened in the Tidewater of Virginia, where enslaved people voted with their feet and escaped the Confederacy by crossing into US Army lines. At Yorktown, Virginia, freedpeople developed their own self-governing enclave near (and in some cases on) the Revolutionary War battlefield. Toy describes that Black community, its formation, and its development well into the twentieth century. She traces the effect of Reconstruction policy and the consequences that its subsequent rollback had on the lives of Black citizens.

Toy also documents the Black community’s attempts to commemorate its members’ role in the Civil War. The Black community fought to retain that memory, one that challenged not only the Lost Cause interpretation of the war but also the federal government’s efforts to privilege the Revolutionary memory of Yorktown while ignoring its ongoing role in the story of American freedom.

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Rebecca Capobianco Toy is interpretation and engagement coordinator for the Washington, DC, Office of the National Park Service. She received the National Park Service’s Freeman Tilden Interpretation Award, and her work has appeared in Civil War History.

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Bahasa Inggeris ● Format EPUB ● Halaman-halaman 288 ● ISBN 9781643365824 ● Penerbit University of South Carolina Press ● Bandar raya Columbia ● Negara US ● Diterbitkan 2025 ● Muat turun 24 bulan ● Mata wang EUR ● ID 9956106 ● Salin perlindungan Adobe DRM
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