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    • Autonomy in Abuse: Glimpses of Freedom in New Orleans. 

      Holcomb, Lisa (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2006-05)
      This paper examines unusual opportunities for autonomy found by women of African descent in New Orleans, from the time the city was acquired by the United States until the Civil War. This city's unique history partially ...
    • The Cost of Freedom. 

      Stoll, Jennifer (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2006-05)
      Freedom came to enslaved African Americans at a high cost. The struggle of African Americans' fight for freedom started before the Civil War and trudged on. Slaves would experience limited freedoms, more prejudices, and ...
    • Failed Sisterhood: Expectations and Betrayal Between the Women of the Antebellum South 

      Filidoro, Erica (2008-06-11)
      Mistresses and slave women in the antebellum South lived and often suffered together under an oppressive patriarchy. They all endured a kind of enslavement in a system that reduced all women to the property of White men ...
    • The Labors of a Race: Labor and Leaders in the Twentieth Century 

      Marker, Erik (2007-12-18)
      Since the mid-19th century, labor activism in the African American community has shifted from least to most important in the Black freedom struggle. The roles of major figures like Martin Luther King Jr., W.E.B. Dubois, ...
    • Oshkosh Scholar 

      Chomsisengphet, S. Larry; Buchmann, Beau; Schrauth, Jamie; Linberts, Andrea June; Linberts, Jessica; Mynsberge, Heath; Miller, Adeline; Simeth, Anna; Whitfield, Jonathan; Knitt, Joseph; Bodoh, Bruce; Schettle, Sarah; Marker, Erik (Office of Grants and Faculty Development, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2007)
    • Oshkosh Scholar Volume IX (2014) 

      Bady, Maria; Boll, Eric; Leonardelli, Ashley T.; Thompson, Karen; Phillips, Alex; McCorkle, Patrick D. (2014-12)
    • Oshkosh Scholar Volume VII (2012) 

      Morrow, Jackie; Tranquilli, Larissa; Buskager, Kevin; Moerchen, Kyle; Boese, Matt; Spaude, Lance; King, Jordan; Scott, Sarah J.; O'Connell, Sara; Boegh, Branden; Luna, Andre; Truell, Peter; Wilichowski, Tracy; Schultz, Gregory L. (2012-12)
    • Oshkosh Scholar Volume VIII (2013) 

      Gauthier, Carie; Kuhl, Michelle; Knoll, Amy; Lukyanova, Anna; Waring, Taylor D.; Wirth, Kristie; Dewitt, John; Duren, Michelle; Lyness, Rosalind (2013-12)
    • A War for Freedom: Slavery and the Emancipation Proclamation. 

      Freund, Heather (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 2006-05)
      This paper examines the real effects of the Emancipation Proclamation, as it technically freed no slaves. It explores the events and legislation that led up the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation as well as the ...