African Americans in the Nineteenth Century: People and Perspectives
A revealing volume that portrays the lives of African Americans in all its variety across the entire 19th century—combining coverage of the pre- and post-Civil War eras.

Uniquely inclusive, African Americans in the Nineteenth Century: People and Perspectives offers a wealth of insights into the way African Americans lived and how slave-era experiences affected their lives afterward. Coverage goes beyond well-known figures to focus on the lives of African American men, women, and children across the nation, battling the oppression and prejudice that didn't stop with emancipation while they tried to establish their place as Americans.

The book ranges from the African origins of African American communities to coverage of slave communities, female slaves, slave–slave holder relations, and freed persons. Additional chapters look at African Americans in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow eras. An alphabetically organized "mini-encyclopedia," plus additional information sources round out this eye-opening work of social history.
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African Americans in the Nineteenth Century: People and Perspectives
A revealing volume that portrays the lives of African Americans in all its variety across the entire 19th century—combining coverage of the pre- and post-Civil War eras.

Uniquely inclusive, African Americans in the Nineteenth Century: People and Perspectives offers a wealth of insights into the way African Americans lived and how slave-era experiences affected their lives afterward. Coverage goes beyond well-known figures to focus on the lives of African American men, women, and children across the nation, battling the oppression and prejudice that didn't stop with emancipation while they tried to establish their place as Americans.

The book ranges from the African origins of African American communities to coverage of slave communities, female slaves, slave–slave holder relations, and freed persons. Additional chapters look at African Americans in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow eras. An alphabetically organized "mini-encyclopedia," plus additional information sources round out this eye-opening work of social history.
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African Americans in the Nineteenth Century: People and Perspectives

African Americans in the Nineteenth Century: People and Perspectives

by Dixie Ray Haggard (Editor)
African Americans in the Nineteenth Century: People and Perspectives

African Americans in the Nineteenth Century: People and Perspectives

by Dixie Ray Haggard (Editor)

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A revealing volume that portrays the lives of African Americans in all its variety across the entire 19th century—combining coverage of the pre- and post-Civil War eras.

Uniquely inclusive, African Americans in the Nineteenth Century: People and Perspectives offers a wealth of insights into the way African Americans lived and how slave-era experiences affected their lives afterward. Coverage goes beyond well-known figures to focus on the lives of African American men, women, and children across the nation, battling the oppression and prejudice that didn't stop with emancipation while they tried to establish their place as Americans.

The book ranges from the African origins of African American communities to coverage of slave communities, female slaves, slave–slave holder relations, and freed persons. Additional chapters look at African Americans in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow eras. An alphabetically organized "mini-encyclopedia," plus additional information sources round out this eye-opening work of social history.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798216043324
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 03/11/2010
Series: Perspectives in American Social History
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 16 MB
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Age Range: 7 - 17 Years

About the Author

Dixie Ray Haggard, PhD, is assistant professor of history at Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA.
Dixie Ray Haggard, PhD, is assistant professor of history at Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction vii

Introduction xi

About the Editor and Contributors xxiii

Chronology xxvii

1 Africans and African Americans to the 1820s Dixie Ray Haggard 1

2 Free Blacks in Antebellum America Shelby Callaway 17

3 Still Rising: An Intricate Look at Black Female Slaves Crystal L. Johnson 33

4 Safety in the Briar Patch: Enslaved Communities in the Nineteenth-Century United States Karen Wilson 45

5 Uncovering the True Relationship between Masters and Slaves Jennifer Hildebrand 63

6 "Yes, We All Shall Be Free": African Americans Make the Civil War a Struggle for Freedom David Williams Teresa Crisp Williams 79

7 African Americans during Reconstruction (1863-1877) Dawn J. Herd-Clark 95

8 African American Responses to Early Jim Crow Mary Block 111

9 "Their Plows Singing beneath the Sandy Loam": African American Agriculture in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South Mark D. Hersey 133

10 African Americans in the Nineteenth-Century West James N. Leiker 149

11 Black Indians: America's Forgotten People Dixie Ray Haggard 171

12 African American Leaders Paige Haggard 185

Primary Documents 203

Reference 221

Bibliography 231

Index 253

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