Author: John W. Blassingame
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226057097
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Reissued for the first time in over thirty years, Black New Orleans explores the twenty-year period in which the city’s black population more than doubled. Meticulously researched and replete with archival illustrations from newspapers and rare periodicals, John W. Blassingame’s groundbreaking history offers a unique look at the economic and social life of black people in New Orleans during Reconstruction. Not a conventional political treatment, Blassingame’s history instead emphasizes the educational, religious, cultural, and economic activities of African Americans during the late nineteenth century. “Blending historical and sociological perspectives, and drawing with skill and imagination upon a variety of sources, [Blassingame] offers fresh insights into an oft-studied period of Southern history. . . . In both time and place the author has chosen an extraordinarily revealing vantage point from which to view his subject. ”—Neil R. McMillen, American Historical Review
Black New Orleans, 1860–1880
Author: John W. Blassingame
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226057097
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Reissued for the first time in over thirty years, Black New Orleans explores the twenty-year period in which the city’s black population more than doubled. Meticulously researched and replete with archival illustrations from newspapers and rare periodicals, John W. Blassingame’s groundbreaking history offers a unique look at the economic and social life of black people in New Orleans during Reconstruction. Not a conventional political treatment, Blassingame’s history instead emphasizes the educational, religious, cultural, and economic activities of African Americans during the late nineteenth century. “Blending historical and sociological perspectives, and drawing with skill and imagination upon a variety of sources, [Blassingame] offers fresh insights into an oft-studied period of Southern history. . . . In both time and place the author has chosen an extraordinarily revealing vantage point from which to view his subject. ”—Neil R. McMillen, American Historical Review
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226057097
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Reissued for the first time in over thirty years, Black New Orleans explores the twenty-year period in which the city’s black population more than doubled. Meticulously researched and replete with archival illustrations from newspapers and rare periodicals, John W. Blassingame’s groundbreaking history offers a unique look at the economic and social life of black people in New Orleans during Reconstruction. Not a conventional political treatment, Blassingame’s history instead emphasizes the educational, religious, cultural, and economic activities of African Americans during the late nineteenth century. “Blending historical and sociological perspectives, and drawing with skill and imagination upon a variety of sources, [Blassingame] offers fresh insights into an oft-studied period of Southern history. . . . In both time and place the author has chosen an extraordinarily revealing vantage point from which to view his subject. ”—Neil R. McMillen, American Historical Review
Black New Orleans, 1860-1880 [By] John W. Blassingame
Author: John W. Blassingame
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Slave Testimony
Author: John W. Blassingame
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807102732
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
“A magisterial and landmark work, one that merits wide and thoughtful readership not only by historians, but, more important, by those of us who count on historians to tell us truly about our past.”—New York Times “A testament to the resilience of the black spirit, faced with a primitive and largely conscienceless regime.”—Bertram Wyatt-Brown, South Atlantic Quarterly “This volume does much more than merely present a rich collection of judiciously selected and skillfully edited sources of the history of slavery; in the process it reveals a host of large-as-life slaves and ex-slaves: Kale, the precocious eleven-year-old Mende of the Amistad rebels, who quickly learned to write eloquent and polished English; Harry McMillan of Beaufort, South Carolina, who talked frankly of black love and marriage; Charlotte Burris of Kentucky, so ‘afflicted’ that her husband was permitted to buy her for only $25.00—‘as much as I was worth,’ she self-effacingly said; and many more. This illumination of the slave as an individual is really what the book is all about.”—Journal of Southern History “A mammoth presentation of two centuries of slave recollections . . . extraordinary firsthand narratives that should become the premier reference volume on the slave experience for years to come.”—Columbia (SC) State “The largest collection of annotated and authenticated accounts of slaves ever published in one volume. . . . So valuable a compilation is this study that its real worth cannot be measured for some time to come.”—Richmond News Leader
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807102732
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
“A magisterial and landmark work, one that merits wide and thoughtful readership not only by historians, but, more important, by those of us who count on historians to tell us truly about our past.”—New York Times “A testament to the resilience of the black spirit, faced with a primitive and largely conscienceless regime.”—Bertram Wyatt-Brown, South Atlantic Quarterly “This volume does much more than merely present a rich collection of judiciously selected and skillfully edited sources of the history of slavery; in the process it reveals a host of large-as-life slaves and ex-slaves: Kale, the precocious eleven-year-old Mende of the Amistad rebels, who quickly learned to write eloquent and polished English; Harry McMillan of Beaufort, South Carolina, who talked frankly of black love and marriage; Charlotte Burris of Kentucky, so ‘afflicted’ that her husband was permitted to buy her for only $25.00—‘as much as I was worth,’ she self-effacingly said; and many more. This illumination of the slave as an individual is really what the book is all about.”—Journal of Southern History “A mammoth presentation of two centuries of slave recollections . . . extraordinary firsthand narratives that should become the premier reference volume on the slave experience for years to come.”—Columbia (SC) State “The largest collection of annotated and authenticated accounts of slaves ever published in one volume. . . . So valuable a compilation is this study that its real worth cannot be measured for some time to come.”—Richmond News Leader
Black New Orleans, 1860 [i.e. Eighteen Sixty]-1880 [i.e. Eighteen Eighty
Author: John W. Blassingame
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Black New Orleans 1860-180
Author: John W. Blassingame
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
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Slavery on Louisiana Sugar Plantations
Author: Vernie Alton Moody
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Slave Community
Author: John W. Blassingame
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Out of the Briars
Author: Alexander Herritage Newton
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Category : African American clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Category : African American clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Aristocrats of Color
Author: Willard Badgett Gatewood (Jr.)
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
New Perspectives on Black Studies
Author: John W. Blassingame
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description