Author: Kirk Mariner
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ISBN: 9780982043660
Category : Free blacks
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Kirk Mariner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982043653
Category : Accomack County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages :

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"'Free Blacks of Accomack County, Virginia' is a happy by-product of Kirk Mariner's meticulous scholarship. In researching his ground-breaking 'Slave and Free on Virginia's Eastern Shore from the Revolution to the Civil War,' Mariner combed antebellum court order books, wills and inventories, federal censuses, newspapers, manuscripts, and other sources, all the while taking the time to note every free black who appeared in the record. The result is a list of more than 10,000 names. Each entry in the list provides a citation to the source document and a brief summary of why the name appeared in the document." - back cover.

Author: Frances Bibbins Latimer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781556137754
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Before 1670 position of African immigrants coming into the Eastern Shore of Virginia was not unlike that of most whites; they were "in bondage." Although in the case of the Africans the bondage had not set time-limit, and was thus in fact slavery, they were "very often able to purchase their freedom (...) acquire land, marry, have families and live an existence not unlike the freed white indentured servant." After 1670, however, a move began "to discard indentured servitude and have slavery as the only method to supply the work force."

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ISBN: 9781886706514
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Author: John Henderson Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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Author: John Henderson Russell
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: Ted Delaney
Publisher: Old City Cemetery
ISBN: 9781890306274
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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The defining feature of this work is the collection of official registrations, records of emancipations, orders of apprenticeship, tax lists and other local court records of free people of color residing in Lynchburg from 1805 through the Civil War. A remarkable primary source for genealogical and historical research. -- Publisher.

Author: John H. Russell
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1605206539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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It is one of the least commonly known facts about the Civil War: there were many, many free negroes living in slaveholding states before the Emancipation Proclamation. This monograph on that surprising reality, originally published in 1913, draws on such firsthand documents as court records, contemporary literature and newspaper accounts, and other sources to create the first such portrait of this nearly forgotten chapter of African-American history. From the various origins of the "free negro" classes to their legal and social statuses-regarding everything from their right of travel to their relationship with their enslaved fellows-this "should supply some of the facts upon which the history of the negro race in the United States must be based," wrote author JOHN HENDERSON RUSSELL (b. 1884) in his preface.

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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 634

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