Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco

@Deglassco
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Professor and Public Historian l History and Sociology of American Media. Specialization: Culture and History of the Antebellum South, Civil War & Reconstruction l Collective Memory of Black Political Leadership, University of Maryland Eastern Shore. Author of The Architecture of Freedom: Black Power and the American Republic, 1777-1860 (forthcoming).

NO JUSTICE NO PEACE >> BLACK LIVES MATTER.

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I am so grateful we have a lot of grass (and compost).

Spot the 1) cat, 2) goats, 3) goats and dogs, 4) bonus: snake

Final Books on Post Emancipation Incarceration

Litwack, Leon F. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
https://archive.org/details/troubleinmindbla0000litw_x9o3

Oshinsky, David M. Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice. New York: Free Press, 1996.
https://archive.org/details/worsethanslavery00oshirich/page/n6/mode/1up

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Trouble in mind : Black southerners in the age of Jim Crow : Litwack, Leon F : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xxi, 599 pages : 25 cm

Internet Archive

More Post Emancipation Incarceration

Du Bois, W. E. B. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935.
https://archive.org/details/blackreconstruc00dubo/page/n6/mode/1up

LeFlouria, Talitha L. Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
https://archive.org/details/chainedinsilence0000lefl

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Black reconstruction; an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880 : Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

First edition.

Internet Archive

Books on Post Emancipation Incarceration

Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press, 2010/2012.
https://archive.org/details/newjimcrowmassin0000alex/page/n10/mode/1up

Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Doubleday, 2008.
https://archive.org/details/slaverybyanother00blac_0

Childs, Dennis. Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary. Univ of MN Press, 2015.
https://archive.org/details/slavesofstatebla0000chil/page/n6/mode/1up

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The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness : Alexander, Michelle : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xvii, 312 p. ; 24 cm

Internet Archive

More Websites

National Museum of African American History and Culture⁠. “The Historical Legacy of Juneteenth.” Accessed June 19, 2026.
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/historical-legacy-juneteenth#:~:text=Freedom%20finally%20came%20on%20June,newly%20freed%20people%20in%20Texas.

National Park Service⁠. “Frederick Douglass and Emancipation in Boston.” Accessed June 19, 2026.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/douglass-emancipation-boston.htm

PBS: African Americans—Many Rivers to Cross⁠. “What Is Juneteenth?” Accessed June 19, 2026.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-is-juneteenth/

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Websites

BBC News⁠. “Juneteenth: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?” June 17, 2021. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57493282

History.com⁠. “What Is Juneteenth?” Accessed June 19, 2026.
https://www.history.com/news/what-is-juneteenth

Juneteenth.com⁠. “Juneteenth History.” Accessed June 19, 2026.
https://www.juneteenth.com

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Juneteenth: US to add federal holiday marking end of slavery

Democrats said it would commemorate "America's original sin", but critics call it "identity politics".

Final Secondary Sources

Gordon-Reed, Annette. On Juneteenth. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2021.
https://archive.org/details/onjuneteenth0000gord

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019.
https://archive.org/details/they-were-her-property-white-women-as-slave-owners-in-the-american-south-pdfdrive

McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
https://archive.org/details/battlecryoffreed0000jame/page/n1/mode/1up

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On Juneteenth : Gordon-Reed, Annette, author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

148 pages ; 20 cm

Internet Archive

More Secondary Sources

Davis, David Brion. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
https://archive.org/details/inhumanbondageri0000davi

Foner, Eric. The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. New York: W. W. Norton, 2010.
https://archive.org/details/fierytrialabraha0000fone

Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780060158514/page/n3/mode/1up

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Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World : Davis, David Brion : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xv, 440 p., [8] p. of plates : 24 cm

Internet Archive

Secondary Sources

Berlin, Ira. The Destruction of Slavery. Vol. 1 of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861–1867. Series 1, The Black Military Experience. Cambridge University Press.
https://archive.org/details/destructionofsla0001unse/mode/1up

Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018.
https://archive.org/details/grederickdouglas00davi

Bynum, Victoria E. The Free State of Jones: Mississippi’s Longest Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
https://archive.org/details/freestateofjones0000bynu/page/n4/mode/1up

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The Destruction of slavery : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

xxxviii, 852 p. : 24 cm

Internet Archive

Intellectual Map

Primary Sources

Douglass, Frederick. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself. Boston: DeWolfe and Fiske, 1892. Accessed June 19, 2026⁠.
https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/dougl92/dougl92.html

“General Order No. 3.” Headquarters, District of Texas, Galveston, June 19, 1865. Reproduced by the National Archives. https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/juneteenth-original-document

Lincoln, Abraham. The Emancipation Proclamation. January 1, 1863. Washington, DC. Accessed June 19, 2026. National Archives⁠.
https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation

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