Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies – serie
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16 produkter
Cultivation and Culture
Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas
Av Ira Berlin, Philip D. Morgan
Häftad, 1993
515 kr
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So central was labor in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for granted, with little attention given to the type of work that slaves did and the circumstances surrounding it. Cultivation and Culture brings together leading scholars of slavery - historians, …
Color of Their Skin
Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-89
Häftad, 1992
294 kr
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This is a study of school desegregation in Virginia. It traces the evolution of the Richmond public schools from segregation to desegregation to resegregation in the decades following the ""Brown"" decision. It analyses the ""separate but equal"" system and its impact on life in the city.
House Divided
Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1638-1865
Inbunden, 1996
674 kr
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This text describes the introduction, evolution, demise and final abolition of slavery in Delaware. The author uncovers why Delaware, a staunch Unionist state during the Civil War, failed to abolish slavery until 1901 and repeatedly denied its black citizens the right to vote.
Rituals of Race
American Public Culture and the Search for Racial Democracy
Häftad, 1999
457 kr
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This text examines public events in New York City from the end of the Civil War through World War I, demonstrating how ritualized elements of black processions, parades, riots and festivals made visible the inherent paradox of the ""separate but equal"" doctrine of the time.
Black Prisoners and Their World, Alabama, 1865-1900
Häftad, 2000
500 kr
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This study draws on a variety of sources, including the reports and correspondence of prison inspectors and letters from prisoners and their families, to explore the history of the African-American men and women whose labour made Alabama's prison system the most profitable in the country.
Migrants Against Slavery
Virginians and the Nation
Inbunden, 2001
587 kr
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A significant number of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Virginians migrated north and west with the intent of extricating themselves from a slave society. All sought some kind of freedom: Whites who left the Old Dominion to escape from slavery refused to live any longer as slave owners or as …
Segregated Scholars
Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950
Inbunden, 2006
514 kr
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Explores the lives and work of fifteen black labor historians and social scientists as seen through the prisms of gender, class, and time. This biography offers portraits of these seminal figures, following them through their educations, their often groundbreaking work in economic and labor …
Word, Like Fire
Maria Stewart, the Bible and the Rights of African Americans
Inbunden, 2012
599 kr
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Virginia Landmarks of Black History
Sites on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historical Places
Av Calder Loth
Inbunden, 1995
668 kr
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The 64 sites described in this book are a testament to the contribution that Afro-Americans have made to Virginia history over the last four centuries. The buildings they constructed, the churches in which they worshiped and the schools in they studies preserve the story of these contributions.
Enterprising Southerners
Black Economic Success in North Carolina, 1865-1915
Inbunden, 1997
596 kr
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Using primary documents, this work examines the characteristics of North Carolina's African-American population in order to explain the social and political factors that shaped economic opportunity for this group from the Civil War until 1915.
Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction
Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865
Inbunden, 1999
639 kr
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This work examines the unusual labour system in Richmond, Virginia from 1782 to the end of the Civil War. The city drew half of its male workforce from the local slave population, offering blacks a level of economic and emotional support not usually available to plantation slaves.
Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction
Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865
Häftad, 2002
280 kr
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An account of the successful adaptation of slavery to industrial labour and freedom in Richmond, Virginia between 1782 and 1865. The book demonstrates how industrial employment allowed blacks to carve out a degree of autonomy and accelerate slavery's demise.
Bitter Fruits of Bondage
The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861-1865
Inbunden, 2004
524 kr
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Bitter Fruits of Bondage is the late Armstead L. Robinson's magnum opus, a controversial history that explodes orthodoxies on both sides of the historical debate over why the South lost the Civil War. Recent studies, while conceding the importance of social factors in the unraveling of the …
Segregated Scholars
Black Social Scientists and the Creation of Black Labor Studies, 1890-1950
Inbunden, 2006
481 kr
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In ""Segregated Scholars"", Francille Rusan Wilson explores the lives and work of fifteen black labor historians and social scientists as seen through the prisms of gender, class, and time. This collective biography offers complex and vital portraits of these seminal figures, many of whom knew and …
Segregation's Science
Eugenics and Society in Virginia
Inbunden, 2008
582 kr
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Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, ""Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia"" examines how eugenic theory and practice bolstered Virginia's various cultures of segregation - rich from poor, sick from well, able from disabled, male from …
Criminal Injustice
Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System
Av Glenn McNair
Inbunden, 2009
668 kr
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Criminal Injustice: Slaves and Free Blacks in Georgia's Criminal Justice System is the most comprehensive study of the criminal justice system of a slave state to date. McNair traces the evolution of Georgia's legal culture by examining its use of slave codes and slave patrols, as well as …
