Collection contains items documenting the sales, escapes, and emancipations of slaves from colonial times through the Civil War, and to a lesser extent, materials relating to slavery in the United States dating from the post-emancipation period.
Go up a ramp, past a mural of a cotton field dotted with workers, and you'll find a gallery dedicated to the post-Emancipation period ― a time when black people were freed from chains only to find themselves, in many cases, bound by nooses.
A [End Page 317] focused analytical approach permits the clearest explanation of the central issues of the period—emancipation, race relations, centralization, nationalism, and hard war, to name a few but by divorcing these elements from a chronological narrative, readers lose the sense of change over time that made these such important issues in the first place.
Under the Act, slaves were granted full emancipation after a period of 4 to 6 years of "apprenticeship".
The university has reacted to the new research by saying that "few, if any, institutions or individuals from the period before Emancipation remained untainted by slavery".
These records are tremendously rich, and they raised a lot of interesting questions that could not be easily answered by focusing on the period following emancipation alone.
In a statement in response to the report, Yale officials defended the university by noting that "few, if any, institutions or individuals from the period before Emancipation remained untainted by slavery".
But not least of the other factors was that it gave an outlet for religious expression to women, who during a period of emancipation were nevertheless excluded from positions of leadership in the conventional churches.
During the period of emancipation, some Jews wanted to have strengthened "external protections" (see section 1.2 above) for their communal autonomy, but the main force of emancipation pushed in a different direction.
Shifting to Dr. King's surname, this had been consistent in his family for roughly half a century before his birth, but for at least some of the period between Emancipation and the 1880 census, his family had gone by Branham/Brannam (just to add to the confusion, family members are recorded with both spellings even in the same document).
