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Reissued for the first time in over thirty years, Black New Orleans explores the twenty-year period in which the city's black population more than doubled. Meticulously researched and replete with archival illustrations from newspapers and rare periodicals, John W. Blassingame's groundbreaking history offers a unique look at the economic and social life of black people in New Orleans during Reconstruction. Not a conventional political treatment, Blassingame's history instead emphasizes the educational, religious, cultural, and economic activities of African Americans during the late...

Examines Black pre-Civil War culture and the slave family, detailing sexual attitudes, courtship practices and wedding ceremonies, childrearing, familial roles, language, and discipline.

Written and oral testimony to the conditions and experiences of slavery reveal the everyday lives and extraordinary culture of black slaves.

This powerful, provocative survey is organized around the key issues of Afro-American history: Africa and slavery, family, religion, sex and racism, politics, economics, education, criminal justice, discrimination and protest movements, and black nationalism.

When you get to Volume 4 of an author's collected works, you know he's something special. Wyatt Blassingame is one of John Pelan's favorite weird menace writers and in John's introduction you will find out why. Get ready to be hit with these sordid yarns: They Thirst by Night, Dime Mystery Magazine, June 1935 Gods Never Die, Terror Tales, May 1936 And Only Death Shall Save Terror Tales, March-April 1937 The Prince of Pain, Dime Mystery Magazine, February 1938 The Invisible Horror, Terror Tales, July 1935 Mistress of Terror, Dime Mystery Magazine, May 1935 Dictator of the Damned, Dime Mystery...