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Black Over White
Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction
Av Thomas Holt
Häftad, 1979
352 kr
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In this prize-winning book Thomas Holt is concerned not only with the identities of the black politicians who gained power in South Carolina during Reconstruction, but also with the question of how they functioned within the political system. Thus, as one reviewer has commented, "he penetrates the …
Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920
Av John Dittmer
Häftad, 1980
339 kr
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"This is the best treatment scholarshave of black life in a southern state at the beginning of the twentieth century."-- Howard N. Rabinowitz,Journal of American History"The author shows clearly and forcefullythe ways in which this [white] system abused and controlled the black lowercaste in …
Medicine and Slavery
The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia
Häftad, 1981
329 kr
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Widely regarded as the most comprehensive study of its kind, this volume offers valuable insight into the alleged medical differences between whites and blacks that translated as racial inferiority and were used to justify slavery and discrimination.In Medicine and Slavery, Todd L. Savitt evaluates …
Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century
Av John Hope Franklin, August Meier
Häftad, 1982
513 kr
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Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917
Häftad, 1982
352 kr
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".. . a well-researched and thoughtful inquiry into the circumstances andsocial forces producing one of the most violent of twentieth-century Americanrace riots."-- American Historical Review"His work fills a seriousgap in the history of racial violence in the United States. Never beforeanalyzed by …
My Bondage and My Freedom
Häftad, 1987
379 kr
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This is the first annotated edition of a work Eric J. Sundquist has called "a classic text of the American Renaissance." As Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has pointed out, My Bondage and My Freedom has been largely ignored by critics, in part because it is longer and less accessible than Narrative of the …
Old Village and Great House
An Archaeological and Historical Examination of Drax Hall Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica
Inbunden, 1990
668 kr
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Rediscovering the lives of enslaved people in JamaicaA combination of archaeological and historical study, The Old Village and the Great House examines life within enslaved, and later free, laborer households at a Jamaican sugar plantation. Douglas V. Armstrong draws on excavations in house-yard …
Indians at Hampton Institute, 1877-1923
Inbunden, 1994
665 kr
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Reform and racism at the famed industrial schoolFounded in 1868, Hampton Institute educated almost 1400 members of sixty-five Native American peoples. Donal F. Lindsey examines the interactions among Indigenous people, Blacks, and whites at the nation’s premier industrial school for racial …
Lynching in the New South
Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930
Häftad, 1993
367 kr
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Lynching was a national crime. But it obsessed the South. W. Fitzhugh Brundage's multidisciplinary approach to the complex nature of lynching delves into the such extrajudicial murders in two states: Virginia, the southern state with the fewest lynchings; and Georgia, where 460 lynchings made the …
Creation of Jazz
Music, Race, and Culture in Urban America
Häftad, 1994
339 kr
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The story of jazz is more than a history of the music. The racial and cultural dynamics of American cities created the music, life, and business that was jazz. Burton W. Peretti's classic study charts the life of jazz culture from its origins in the jook joints of sharecroppers and the streets and …
Africa in America
Slave Acculturation and Resistance in the American South and the British Caribbean, 1736-1831
Häftad, 1995
439 kr
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Extensive archival and anecdotal sources support Michael Mullin's description of slavery as it was practiced in tidewater Virginia, on the rice coast of the Carolinas, and in Jamaica and Barbados. Drawing upon case histories, Mullin offers new and definitive information about how African people met …
Local People
The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
Av John Dittmer
Häftad, 1995
396 kr
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Winner of the Bancroft Prize, the Lillian Smith Book Award, the Mississippi Historical Society McLemore Prize, the Herbert G. Gutman Prize and the Gustavus Myers Center for Study of Human Rights Outstanding Book Prize.Publication of this book was supported by a grant from DePauw University, …
Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels
Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery
Häftad, 1995
324 kr
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Once preoccupied with Brazilian slavery as an economic system, historians shifted their attention to examine the nature of life and community among enslaved people. Stuart B. Schwartz looks at this change while explaining why historians must continue to place their ethnographic approach in the …
Race Riot
CHICAGO in the RED SUMMER of 1919
Häftad, 1996
367 kr
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"The origins of the Chicago race riot of 1919 are to be found, not in high-level policy, but in gut-level animosities between black and white people who were generally inarticulate and presentist-oriented, and who did not record their motivations or feelings for posterity. . . To explain the …
John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65
Av William Cheek, Aimee Lee Cheek
Häftad, 1996
468 kr
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A biography of the pioneering Black leaderPrivileged beyond other members of his race, yet sharing their disadvantages, the young John Mercer Langston stood in an uncertain position in the years before the Civil War. His confrontation with a critical personal question was tempered by a crucial …
Making Their Own Way
Southern Blacks' Migration to Pittsburgh, 1916-30
Häftad, 1996
365 kr
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"A model study, one of two or three genuinely indispensable bookson that momentous movement historians know as the Great Migration. PeterGottlieb shatters the received portrait of southern migrants as bewildered,premodern folk, 'utterly unprepared' for the complexities of urban life.African …
Freedom's Port
The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860
Häftad, 1997
353 kr
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Baltimore's African-American population--nearly 27,000 strong and more than 90 percent free in 1860--was the largest in the nation at that time. Christopher Phillips's Freedom's Port, the first book-length study of an urban black population in the antebellum Upper South, chronicles the growth and …
Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915
Häftad, 1997
353 kr
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Property ownership has been a traditional means for African Americans to gain recognition and enter the mainstream of American life. This landmark study documents this significant, but often overlooked, aspect of the black experience from the late eighteenth century to World War I.
Black Society in Spanish Florida
Av Jane Landers
Häftad, 1999
425 kr
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Blacks under Spanish rule in Florida lived in a more complex and international world that linked the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe with a powerful and diverse Indian hinterland. Jane Landers’s pioneering study of people of the African diaspora under Spain’s colonial rule rewrites Florida history …
Voice of Thunder
A BLACK SOLDIER'S CIVIL WAR
Av George Stephens, Donald Yacovone
Häftad, 1998
423 kr
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George E. Stephens, the mostimportant African-American war correspondent of his era, served in thefamed black Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment, subject of the film Glory.His letters from the front, published in the New York Weekly Anglo-African,brilliantly detail two wars: one against the …
Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August
African-Americans in Newport and Saratoga Springs, 1870-1930
Häftad, 1999
367 kr
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The lives built by Black Americans in a pair of summer resort townsIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, northern resort towns were in their heyday as celebrated retreats for America's wealthy. Lord, Please Don't Take Me in August documents the experiences of African Americans in …
Along the Color Line
EXPLORATIONS in the BLACK EXPERIENCE
Av August Meier, Elliott Rudwick
Häftad, 2002
329 kr
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Along the Color Line is a diverse collection of essays by two of the most accomplished historians of the modern African American experience, first published more than a quarter of a century ago. This informed study addresses such topics as black nationalism, nonviolent action, the changing patterns …
Slavery and the Numbers Game
A CRITIQUE of TIME on the CROSS
Häftad, 2003
339 kr
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This detailed analysis of slavery in the antebellum South was written in 1975 in response to the prior year's publication of Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman's controversial Time on the Cross, which argued that slavery was an efficient and dynamic engine for the southern economy and that its …
