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Aristocrats of Color
The Black Elite, 1880–1920
Häftad, 2000
294 kr
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Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active black elite, who felt it was their duty to set the standard for the less fortunate members of their race and to lead their communities by example. Rank within this black upper class rested on such issues as the status of one’s forebears as …
Town and Country
Race Relations in an Urban/Rural Context, Arkansas, 1865-1905
Inbunden, 1990
537 kr
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A thoroughly researched and extensively documented look at race relations in Arkansas druing the forty years after the Civil War, Town and Country focuses on the gradual adjustment of black and white Arkansans to the new status of the freedman, in both society and law, after generations of …
Ambiguous Lives
Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789–1879
Häftad, 1992
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1992 Myers Center Outstanding Book on Human RightsHistorians have produced scores of studies on white men, extraordinary white women, and even the often anonymous mass of enslaved Black people in the United States. But in this innovative work, Adele Logan Alexander chronicles there heretofore …
Other Brahmins
Boston's Black Upper Class 1750-1950
Inbunden, 1995
639 kr
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Adelaide Cromwell’s pioneering work explores race and the social caste system in an atypical northern environment over a period of two centuries. Based on scholarly sources, interviews, and questionnaires, the study identifies those blacks in Boston who exercised political, economic, and social …
From Slavery to Uncertain Freedom
The Freedmen's Bureau in Arkansas, 1865-1869
Av Randy Finley
Inbunden, 1996
323 kr
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Black Savannah, 1788–1864
Häftad, 1999
286 kr
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Fourth in the University of Arkansas Press series in Black Community Studies, this examination of the black community of Savannah, Georgia, during the antebellum and the Civil War periods is a groundbreaker. It begins in 1788 with the founding of Savannah’s first black public institution, an …
African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930
Elites and Dilemmas
Häftad, 1999
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Since its founding, Nashville has been a center of black urban culture in the Upper South. Blacks—slave and free—made up 20 percent of Fort Nashborough’s settlers in 1779. From these early years through the Civil War, a growing black community in Nashville, led by a small group of black elites, …
Black Charlestonians
A Social History, 1822-1885
Häftad, 1999
356 kr
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This revisionist work delineates the major social and economic contours of the large black population in the pivotal Southern city of Charleston, South Carolina., historic seaport center for the slave trade. It draws upon census data, manuscript collections, and newspaper accounts to expand our …
Town and Country
Race Relations in an Urban-Rural Context, Arkansas, 1865-1905
Av John Graves
Häftad, 1990
366 kr
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A thoroughly researched and extensively documented look at race relations in Arkansas druing the forty years after the Civil War, Town and Country focuses on the gradual adjustment of black and white Arkansans to the new status of the freedman, in both society and law, after generations of …
