{"id":1360,"date":"2020-07-27T10:33:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T09:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/?p=1360"},"modified":"2020-07-27T10:33:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T09:33:59","slug":"erik-mathisen-on-free-labour-emancipation-and-the-global-history-of-reconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2020\/07\/27\/erik-mathisen-on-free-labour-emancipation-and-the-global-history-of-reconstruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Mathisen on free labour, emancipation and the global history of Reconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/history\/people\/1474\/mathisen-erik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr Erik Mathisen<\/a>, Lecturer in US History, has recently had a piece published online in the Journal of the Civil War Era&#8217;s <em>Muster<\/em> blog.<\/p>\n<p>In the post, Erik discusses some of his recent research on the history of free labour, emancipation, and the potential offered by new global perspectives on the Reconstruction-era US South. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalofthecivilwarera.org\/2020\/07\/free-labor-emancipation-reconstructions-global-lens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read Erik&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Erik teaches American history, offering modules such as the third-year special subject <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/modules\/module\/HI6113\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Age of Emancipation: Slavery and Labour in the Atlantic World, 1790-1890&#8217;<\/a>. You can also follow him on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrEMathisen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DrEMathisen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Erik Mathisen, Lecturer in US History, has recently had a piece published online in the Journal of the Civil War Era&#8217;s Muster blog. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2020\/07\/27\/erik-mathisen-on-free-labour-emancipation-and-the-global-history-of-reconstruction\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65703,"featured_media":1361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16742,70],"tags":[72438,173225,70,231135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1360\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}