1992 Myers Center Outstanding Book on Human Rights
Historians have produced scores of studies on white men, extraordinary white women, and even the often anonymous mass of enslaved Black people in the United States. But in this innovative work, Adele Logan Alexander chronicles there heretofore undocumented dilemmas of one of nineteenth-century America's most marginalized groups--free women of color in the rural South.
Ambiguous Lives focuses on the women of Alexander's own family as representative of this subcaste of the African-American community. Their forbears,...
1992 Myers Center Outstanding Book on Human Rights
Historians have produced scores of studies on white men, extraordinary white women, ...
Fourth in the University of Arkansas Press series in Black Community Studies, this examination of the black community of Savannah, Georgia, during the antebellum and the Civil War periods is a groundbreaker. It begins in 1788 with the founding of Savannah s first black public institution, an independent church, and closes in 1864 with Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman s capture of Savannah and the subsequent end to slavery. Using a wide range of primary sources, including the little-used Southern Claims Case Files, and a vast number of secondary sources, Whittington Johnson gracefully...
Fourth in the University of Arkansas Press series in Black Community Studies, this examination of the black community of Savannah, Georgia, during ...
Since its founding, Nashville has been a center of black urban culture in the Upper South. Blacks slave and free made up 20 percent of Fort Nashborough s settlers in 1779. From these early years through the Civil War, a growing black community in Nashville, led by a small group of black elites, quietly built the foundations of a future society, developing schools, churches, and businesses. The Civil War brought new freedoms and challenges as the black population of Nashville increased and as black elites found themselves able even obliged to act more openly. To establish a more stable and...
Since its founding, Nashville has been a center of black urban culture in the Upper South. Blacks slave and free made up 20 percent of Fort Nashbor...
This deeply researched, clearly written book is a history of black society and its relations with whites in the Bahamas from the close of the American Revolution to emancipation. Whittington B. Johnson examines the communities developed by free, bonded, and mixed-race blacks on the islands as British colonists and American loyalists unsuccessfully tried to establish a plantation economy. The author explores how relations between the races developed civilly in this region, contrasting it with the harsher and more violent experiences of other Caribbean islands as well as the American...
This deeply researched, clearly written book is a history of black society and its relations with whites in the Bahamas from the close of the American...
This monumental work is a classic study of the black aristocracy which developed in the United States in the years following Reconstruction. Every American city had a small, self-aware, and active black elite, who felt it was their duty to set the standard for the less-fortunate members of their race and to lead their communities by example. Rank within this black upper class rested on such issues as the status of one's forebears as either house servants or field hands, the darkness of one's skin, and the level of one's manners and education. Professor Gatewood's study examines this class of...
This monumental work is a classic study of the black aristocracy which developed in the United States in the years following Reconstruction. Every Ame...
Viewed from the perspective of blacks and whites who benefited from the Arkansas Freedmen's Bureau, this history documents the struggle of freedpersons building homes, families, churches, and communities in Arkansas during Reconstruction.
Viewed from the perspective of blacks and whites who benefited from the Arkansas Freedmen's Bureau, this history documents the struggle of freedperson...
