America Goes to War
America Goes to War

Author: Charles Patrick Neimeyer

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1997-06

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0814757820

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Neimeyer for the first time reveals who really served in the army during the Revolution and why. His conclusions are startling. The long-termed Continental soldiers were not those whom historians have traditionally associated with the defense of liberty.

Appalachians and Race
Appalachians and Race

Author: John C. Inscoe

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2001-12-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780813171227

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African Americans have had a profound impact on the economy, culture, and social landscape of southern Appalachia but only after a surge of study in the last two decades have their contributions been recognized by white culture. Appalachians and Race brings together 18 essays on the black experience in the mountain South in the nineteenth century. These essays provide a broad and diverse sampling of the best work on race relations in this region. The contributors consider a variety of topics: black migration into and out of the region, educational and religious missions directed at African Americans, the musical influences of interracial contacts, the political activism of blacks during reconstruction and beyond, the racial attitudes of white highlanders, and much more. Drawing from the particulars of southern mountain experiences, this collection brings together important studies of the dynamics of race not only within the region, but throughout the South and the nation over the course of the turbulent nineteenth century.

Ethnic Genealogy
Ethnic Genealogy

Author: Jessie Smith

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1983-11-22

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0313367132

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"[This work] will be useful to librarians, to genealogists, and to persons searching American Indian, Asian-American, black American, and Hispanic-American ancestries. . . . Family researchers or librarians will find this comprehensive, user-friendly work invaluable." Reference Books Bulletin

The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860
The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860

Author: John Hope Franklin

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2000-11-09

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0807866687

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John Hope Franklin has devoted his professional life to the study of African Americans. Originally published in 1943 by UNC Press, The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860 was his first book on the subject. As Franklin shows, freed slaves in the antebellum South did not enjoy the full rights of citizenship. Even in North Carolina, reputedly more liberal than most southern states, discriminatory laws became so harsh that many voluntarily returned to slavery.

Finding Your African American Ancestors
Finding Your African American Ancestors

Author: David T. Thackery

Publisher: Ancestry Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780916489908

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Although the search for African American ancestry prior to the Civil War is challenging, the difficulties are not always insurmountable. Finding Your African American Ancestors takes you through your ancestors' transition from slavery to freedom, and helps you find them using the federal census, plantation records, and other helpful sources. The book also considers ways to locate runaway slave advertisements, to identify an ancestor's military regiment, and to access the valuable information from The Freedman's Savings and Trust records.

Forging Freedom
Forging Freedom

Author: Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0807835056

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For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience. In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired, de

Stolen Childhood, Second Edition
Stolen Childhood, Second Edition

Author: Wilma King

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2011-06-29

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 0253222648

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One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship on slavery that has emerged in the 15 years since the first edition. While the structure of the book remains the same, Wilma King has expanded its scope to include the international dimension with a new chapter on the transatlantic trade in African children, and the book's geographic boundaries now embrace slave-born children in the North. She includes data about children owned by Native Americans and African Americans, and presents new information about children's knowledge of and participation in the abolitionist movement and the interactions between enslaved and free children.