Purgatory between Kentucky and Canada
Purgatory between Kentucky and Canada

Author: Marsha R. Robinson

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-08-26

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1443866415

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Democracy is a multigenerational project, a haven carved out of tyranny by the liberal and diligent application of the sharp-edge of social networks. Purgatory between Kentucky and Canada: African Americans in Ohio presents the work of several scholars who have researched the micro-tactics of ordinary people who attempted to create a little space of peace in a place that was less heavenly than some might suppose. We present histories of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ohio African American individuals who fought for higher education, voting rights, the right to live where they chose and the right to “secure the blessings of liberty” and equality for themselves and their children. Some were prosperous farmers. Others were masters of print and radio media. Still others dedicated themselves to freeing fellow citizens from the oppression of ignorance. We find that they all used social networks to secure the fulfillment of the promises made in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. We hope that these lessons in social networking and in perfecting democracy from Ohio African Americans’ experiences will inspire ordinary people everywhere, especially in the Mediterranean Rim where people are living through the hell fires of democratic revolutions that are popularly known as the Twitter Revolutions of 2010–2013. While democratic popular uprisings create a tough row to hoe for patriotic demonstrators, the many people and families that you will meet in this volume teach that the fruits of democracy are worthy of diligent and brave efforts by demonstrators and their descendants.

Borderland Blacks
Borderland Blacks

Author: dann j. Broyld

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2022-05-25

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0807177679

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In the early nineteenth century, Rochester, New York, and St. Catharines, Canada West, were the last stops on the Niagara branch of the Underground Railroad. Both cities handled substantial fugitive slave traffic and were logical destinations for the settlement of runaways because of their progressive stance on social issues including abolition of slavery, women’s rights, and temperance. Moreover, these urban centers were home to sizable free Black communities as well as an array of individuals engaged in the abolitionist movement, such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Anthony Burns, and Hiram Wilson. dann j. Broyld’s Borderland Blacks explores the status and struggles of transient Blacks within this dynamic zone, where the cultures and interests of the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and the African Diaspora overlapped. Blacks in the two cities shared newspapers, annual celebrations, religious organizations, and kinship and friendship ties. Too often, historians have focused on the one-way flow of fugitives on the Underground Railroad from America to Canada when in fact the situation on the ground was far more fluid, involving two-way movement and social collaborations. Black residents possessed transnational identities and strategically positioned themselves near the American-Canadian border where immigration and interaction occurred. Borderland Blacks reveals that physical separation via formalized national barriers did not sever concepts of psychological memory or restrict social ties. Broyld investigates how the times and terms of emancipation affected Blacks on each side of the border, including their use of political agency to pit the United States and British Canada against one another for the best possible outcomes.

Historic Black Settlements of Ohio
Historic Black Settlements of Ohio

Author: David Meyers

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2020-02-03

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1439668957

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In the years leading up to the Civil War, Ohio had more African American settlements than any other state. Owing to a common border with several slave states, it became a destination for people of color seeking to separate themselves from slavery. Despite these communities having populations that sometimes numbered in the hundreds, little is known about most of them, and by the beginning of the twentieth century, nearly all had lost their ethnic identities as the original settlers died off and their descendants moved away. Save for scattered cemeteries and an occasional house or church, they have all but been erased from Ohio's landscape. Father-daughter coauthors David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker piece together the stories of more than forty of these black settlements.

The Classics in Black and White
The Classics in Black and White

Author: Kenneth W. Goings

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2024-05-15

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0820366633

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Following emancipation, African Americans continued their quest for an education by constructing schools and colleges for Black students, mainly in the U.S. South, to acquire the tools of literacy, but beyond this, to enroll in courses in the Greek and Latin classics, then the major curriculum at American liberal arts colleges and universities. Classically trained African Americans from the time of the early U.S. republic had made a link between North Africa and the classical world; therefore, from almost the beginning of their quest for a formal education, many African Americans believed that the classics were their rightful legacy. The Classics in Black and White is based extensively on the study of course catalogs of colleges founded for Black people after the Civil War by Black churches, largely White missionary societies and White philanthropic organizations. Kenneth W. Goings and Eugene O’Connor uncover the full extent of the colleges’ classics curriculums and showcase the careers of prominent African American classicists, male and female, and their ultimately unsuccessful struggle to protect the liberal arts from being replaced by Black conservatives and White power brokers with vocational instruction such as woodworking for men and domestic science for women. This move to eliminate classics was in large part motivated by the very success of the colleges’ classics programs. As Goings and O’Connor’s survey of Black colleges’ curriculums and texts reveals, the lessons they taught were about more than declensions and conjugations—they imparted the tools of self-formation and self-affirmation.

Purgatory Between Kentucky and Canada
Purgatory Between Kentucky and Canada

Author: Marsha R. Robinson

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Pub

Published: 2015-03

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781443872218

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African Americans carved spaces of freedom in Ohio for more than two hundred years and their work is still incomplete. Generations before the US Civil War, free African Americans owned farms and businesses in Ohio. Social networking, education and dignity were tools used in multigenerational efforts to demand the benefits of liberty and citizenship as free and equal citizens. African Americans carved several havens of democracy in Ohio despite the tyranny of racial oppression in Antebellum and post-Civil War American culture. Purgatory between Kentucky and Canada: African Americans in Ohio presents the work of several scholars who have researched the micro-tactics of ordinary people who attempted to create a little space of peace in a place that was less heavenly than some might suppose. This volume presents histories of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ohio African American individuals who fought for higher education, voting rights, the right to live where they chose and the right to secure the blessings of liberty and equality for themselves and their children. Some were prosperous farmers. Others were masters of print and radio media. Still others dedicated themselves to freeing fellow citizens from the oppression of ignorance. This book shows that they all used social networks to secure the fulfillment of the promises made in the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. These lessons in social networking and in perfecting democracy from Ohio African Americans' experiences will inspire ordinary people everywhere. Democratic popular uprisings are just the beginning. The many people and families in this volume are a reminder that the fruits of democracy are worthy of diligent and brave efforts by demonstrators and their descendants.

Religious Liberties
Religious Liberties

Author: Elizabeth A. Fenton

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2011-04-08

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 0195384091

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Early U.S. literary and cultural productions often presented Catholicism as a threat not only to Protestantism but also to democracy. Religious Liberties shows that U.S. understandings of religious freedom and pluralism emerged, paradoxically, out of a virulent anti-Catholicism.

The 5 W's: Where?
The 5 W's: Where?

Author: Erin McHugh

Publisher: Union Square + ORM

Published: 2011-06-14

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1402792131

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A collection of quirky and unusual facts about locations real and fictional, including cemeteries, mafia homes, underwater hotels, and Bizarro World. From Arsenic Tubs, Mexico to Big Ugly, West Virginia, here’s where you’ll find plenty of fun facts. Discover the ins and outs of places almost unknown, locales that have captured your imagination, and spots worth finding out about—including the world’s best and most beautiful beaches. Where is . . . . . . the seat of the Dalai Lama in exile? Dharamsala, India. . . . the final resting place of Galileo, Machiavelli, and Michelangelo? Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze, Florence, Italy. . . . the first paved road? In Egypt. The road dates back 4,600 years to the time when the Great Pyramids were built. . . . the largest desert on earth? It’s Antarctica, with 5.5 million square miles and less than 2 inches of rainfall per year. . . . Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg? In Massachusetts. It’s the longest name for a lake in the United States.

Alas, Babylon
Alas, Babylon

Author: Pat Frank

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2005-07-05

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0060741872

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The classic apocalyptic novel that stunned the world.