Author: Alrutheus Ambush Taylor
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: Alrutheus Ambush Taylor
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Author: ALRUTHEUS AMBUSH. TAYLOR
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ISBN: 9781033290125
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Publisher: Blair
ISBN: 9780895871190
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Slavery is as basic a part of Virginia history as George Washington, who was accompanied at Valley Forge and Yorktown by his slave William Lee, and Thomas Jefferson, who directed his slaves to cut 30 feet off a mountaintop for the site of Monticello. Slavery in the Old Dominion began in 1619, when a Spanish frigate was captured and its cargo of Negroes brought to Jamestown. Virginia Negroes experienced slavery as field laborers, as skilled craftsmen, as house servants. In 1935, the Virginia Writers' Project began collecting data for a history of Negroes in the Old Dominion through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Depression. Published in 1940 as "The Negro in Virginia", it was regarded as a "classic of its kind." Modern readers will be surprised at how relevant it remains today. -- From publisher's description.

Author: Virginia Writers' Project
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 516

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Author: Joseph Carroll Vance
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: John Preston McConnell
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Author: Richard Lee Morton
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Author: Daniel B. Thorp
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813940745
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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The history of African Americans in southern Appalachia after the Civil War has largely escaped the attention of scholars of both African Americans and the region. In Facing Freedom, Daniel Thorp relates the complex experience of an African American community in southern Appalachia as it negotiated a radically new world in the four decades following the Civil War. Drawing on extensive research in private collections as well as local, state, and federal records, Thorp narrates in intimate detail the experiences of black Appalachians as they struggled to establish autonomous families, improve their economic standing, operate black schools within a white-controlled school system, form independent black churches, and exercise expanded—if contested—roles as citizens and members of the body politic. Black out-migration increased markedly near the close of the nineteenth century, but the generation that transitioned from slavery to freedom in Montgomery County established the community institutions that would survive disenfranchisement and Jim Crow. Facing Freedom reveals the stories and strategies of those who pioneered these resilient bulwarks against the rising tide of racism.

Author: Luther Porter Jackson
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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The free Negro in Virginia before the Civil War was a by-product of slavery. During one period he was granted certain civil rights and had many economic opportunities; at another period these rights were withdrawn and the opportunities were diminished. The span of time in which the free Negro is thought to have suffered the most severe restrictions is that treated in this study, from 1830 to 1860. During this period limitations were many, but they were largely legal and political. Favorable economic conditions mitigated the force of the law and enabled the free Negroes to advance along with the general upward movement in the state. The advancement made by the free Negro, in spite of the law, is the theme of this study. -- Introduction.