Author: New Hampshire
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Laws of New Hampshire: Second constitutional period, 1829-1835
Author: New Hampshire
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Laws of New Hampshire: Second constitutional period, 1821-1828
Author: New Hampshire
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Historical New Hampshire
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Category : New Hampshire
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Category : New Hampshire
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Richard Potter
Author: John A. Hodgson
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813941059
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Apart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular entertainer in America--the first showman, in fact, to win truly nationwide fame. Working as a magician and ventriloquist, he personified for an entire generation what a popular performer was and made an invaluable contribution to establishing popular entertainment as a major part of American life. His story is all the more remarkable in that Richard Potter was also a black man. This was an era when few African Americans became highly successful, much less famous. As the son of a slave, Potter was fortunate to have opportunities at all. At home in Boston, he was widely recognized as black, but elsewhere in America audiences entertained themselves with romantic speculations about his "Hindu" ancestry (a perception encouraged by his act and costumes). Richard Potter’s performances were enjoyed by an enormous public, but his life off stage has always remained hidden and unknown. Now, for the first time, John A. Hodgson tells the remarkable, compelling--and ultimately heartbreaking--story of Potter’s life, a tale of professional success and celebrity counterbalanced by racial vulnerability in an increasingly hostile world. It is a story of race relations, too, and of remarkable, highly influential black gentlemanliness and respectability: as the unsung precursor of Frederick Douglass, Richard Potter demonstrated to an entire generation of Americans that a black man, no less than a white man, could exemplify the best qualities of humanity. The apparently trivial "popular entertainment" status of his work has long blinded historians to his significance and even to his presence. Now at last we can recognize him as a seminal figure in American history.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813941059
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Apart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular entertainer in America--the first showman, in fact, to win truly nationwide fame. Working as a magician and ventriloquist, he personified for an entire generation what a popular performer was and made an invaluable contribution to establishing popular entertainment as a major part of American life. His story is all the more remarkable in that Richard Potter was also a black man. This was an era when few African Americans became highly successful, much less famous. As the son of a slave, Potter was fortunate to have opportunities at all. At home in Boston, he was widely recognized as black, but elsewhere in America audiences entertained themselves with romantic speculations about his "Hindu" ancestry (a perception encouraged by his act and costumes). Richard Potter’s performances were enjoyed by an enormous public, but his life off stage has always remained hidden and unknown. Now, for the first time, John A. Hodgson tells the remarkable, compelling--and ultimately heartbreaking--story of Potter’s life, a tale of professional success and celebrity counterbalanced by racial vulnerability in an increasingly hostile world. It is a story of race relations, too, and of remarkable, highly influential black gentlemanliness and respectability: as the unsung precursor of Frederick Douglass, Richard Potter demonstrated to an entire generation of Americans that a black man, no less than a white man, could exemplify the best qualities of humanity. The apparently trivial "popular entertainment" status of his work has long blinded historians to his significance and even to his presence. Now at last we can recognize him as a seminal figure in American history.
Writings on American History
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service
Author: Public Affairs Information Service
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Men, Cities and Transportation
Author: Edward Chase Kirkland
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Annual Report
Author: American Historical Association
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Library Bulletin
Author: Dartmouth College. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Languages : en
Pages : 360
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