Description: The extraordinary life of Priscilla Joyner and her quest--along with other formerly enslaved people--to define freedom after the Civil War.
Brief description: Carole Emberton is professor of history at the University at Buffalo. An NEH public scholar, she is the author of the prize-winning Beyond Redemption. She has written for the New York Times and Washington Post.
Review Quotes: Emberton creates an illuminating view of the daily struggles and triumphs that characterized African Americans' 'long emancipation'....An insightful, poignant consideration of a representative figure's negotiation of liberty in the decades after Emancipation.-- "Kirkus Reviews"