Black pioneers : an untold story /

A biographical history of influential African American pioneers and freedom fighters in the Midwest, including Sara Jane Woodson, Peter Clark, and Dred Scott.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Katz, William Loren
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [1999]
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	African American pioneers > Middle West > History > Juvenile literature. African American abolitionists > Middle West > History > Juvenile literature. African American pioneers > Middle West > Biography > Juvenile literature. African American abolitionists > Middle West > Biography > Juvenile literature. Pioneers. Abolitionists. African Americans > Biography. Middle West (U.S.) > Race relations > Juvenile literature. Middle West (U.S.) > History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : The Northwest Territory
Black pathfinders and native Americans
War, race, and slavery in the Ohio Valley
Pioneer farmers of the Ohio Valley
The determination of Sarah Jane Woodson
Peter H. Clark's Cincinnati
A railroad's "fierce passions"
The Malvins of Cleveland
The fight for liberty in Indiana
"Warfare and strife" in Illinois
The "Order of the men of oppression"
The Iowa of Alexander Clark
Wisconsin battles "The heel of oppression"
The Greys of Minnisota
From Missouri to Kansas : the odyssey of Henry Clay Bruce
From "alien and stranger" to U.S. Army officer.