Author: National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Records of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, 1895-1992
Author: National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Contested Transformation
Author: Carol Hardy-Fanta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521196434
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
This book provides the first in-depth look at male and female elected officials of color using survey and other empirical data.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521196434
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
This book provides the first in-depth look at male and female elected officials of color using survey and other empirical data.
Debunking the Yule Log Myth
Author: Robert E. May
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
According to an oft repeated legend, during Christmas before the Civil War, all enslaved people in the American South enjoyed lengthy vacations of a week or more depending on how long an oversized “Yule log” burned in their master’s fireplace. As long as the log held out, slaves escaped heavy labor and their masters’ whips and enjoyed a rare freedom of movement to go and do what they wished as well as gorge themselves on food and drink they never got the rest of the year. No wonder they soaked those logs in swamps to make them burn even longer. But is it true? In this book historian Robert May takes readers on a detective caper as he investigates a story that reaches back to colonial America and continues today. May finds no evidence of the Yule log tradition in the historical record, instead showing that it originated with pro-Confederate Lost Cause propagandists attempting to present the South’s prewar system of human bondage in as soft tones as possible. Tales about good-natured masters and unresentful slaves jovially sharing Christmases played to this impulse beautifully. Debunking the Yule Log Myth does more than correct the historical record. It serves as a highly instructive case study in the process of historical mythmaking. This captivating tale will appeal to all readers interested in African American history and the long struggle to support white supremacy by creating a mythical antebellum American South.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
According to an oft repeated legend, during Christmas before the Civil War, all enslaved people in the American South enjoyed lengthy vacations of a week or more depending on how long an oversized “Yule log” burned in their master’s fireplace. As long as the log held out, slaves escaped heavy labor and their masters’ whips and enjoyed a rare freedom of movement to go and do what they wished as well as gorge themselves on food and drink they never got the rest of the year. No wonder they soaked those logs in swamps to make them burn even longer. But is it true? In this book historian Robert May takes readers on a detective caper as he investigates a story that reaches back to colonial America and continues today. May finds no evidence of the Yule log tradition in the historical record, instead showing that it originated with pro-Confederate Lost Cause propagandists attempting to present the South’s prewar system of human bondage in as soft tones as possible. Tales about good-natured masters and unresentful slaves jovially sharing Christmases played to this impulse beautifully. Debunking the Yule Log Myth does more than correct the historical record. It serves as a highly instructive case study in the process of historical mythmaking. This captivating tale will appeal to all readers interested in African American history and the long struggle to support white supremacy by creating a mythical antebellum American South.
Microform Review
Author:
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Category : Microforms
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Microforms
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
America, History and Life
Author:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
The Journal of American History
Author: Organization of American historians
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Current Contents. Arts & Humanities
Author: Institute for scientific information (Philadelphie, Pa).
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1700
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1700
Book Description
Gateway Heritage
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Guide to Microforms in Print
Author:
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Category : Microcards
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Microcards
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
National Negro Health Week ...
Author:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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