African Americans in the nineteenth century : people and perspectives /

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

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Haggard, Dixie Ray
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2010]
Series:Perspectives in American social history.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.