African Americans in the nineteenth century people and perspectives

Title:

Author:

Haggard, Dixie Ray.

ISBN:

9781598841244

Publication Information:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2010.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlvi, 258 p.) : ill.

Series:

Perspectives in American social history

Perspectives in American social history.

Contents:

Africans and African Americans in America to the 1820s / Dixie Ray Haggard -- Free Blacks in antebellum America / Shelby Callaway -- Still rising : an intricate look at Black female slaves / Crystal Johnston -- Safety in the briar patch : enslaved communities in the nineteenth century United States / Karen Wilson -- Uncovering the true relationship between masters and slaves / Jennifer Hildebrand -- "Yes, we all shall be free" : African Americans make the Civil War a struggle for freedom / David Williams and Theresa Crisp Williams -- African Americans during Reconstruction (1863-1877) / Dawn Herd-Clark -- African American responses to Jim Crow / Mary Block -- "Their plows singing beneath the sandy loam" : African American agriculture in the late-nineteenth century South / Mark D. Hersey -- African Americans in the 19th century West / Jim Leiker -- Black Indians : America's forgotten people / Dixie Ray Haggard -- African American leaders / Paige Haggard.

Abstract:

Provides insights into the way African Americans lived and how slave-era experiences affected their lives afterward.

Subject Term:

African Americans -- History -- 19th century.

African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century.

Slavery -- United States -- 19th century.

United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.

History.

SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.

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