Maryland in Africa
Author | : Penelope Campbell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 842 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780608148694 |
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Author | : Penelope Campbell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 842 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780608148694 |
Author | : Maryland in Liberia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1837 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ira Berlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2008-02-01 |
Genre | : Maryland |
ISBN | : 9780942370515 |
Author | : Richard L. Hall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"...Some eleven hundred black Americans-men, women, and children; some slave, some freedmen, some freeborn; most from Maryland-did emigrate to Cape Palmas between 1833 and 1856...They went to Africa for precisely the same reasons that inspired the westward movement of European settlers across North America: cheap or free land, economic opportunity, the chance to live, think, and worship in freedom, and the prospect that succeeding generations wuld have better lives. Moreover, settlers of Maryland In Liberia had a sense that they must prove a point to the rest of the world-that they could live and prosper as well as any other community. On Afric's Shore records their efforts do just that." -- Introd.
Author | : Library of Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
"This guide lists the numerous examples of government documents, manuscripts, books, photographs, recordings and films in the collections of the Library of Congress which examine African-American life. Works by and about African-Americans on the topics of slavery, music, art, literature, the military, sports, civil rights and other pertinent subjects are discussed"--
Author | : Jessica Millward |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0820348791 |
Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new means of using biography as a historical genre. Millward opens with a striking discussion about how researching the life of a single enslaved woman, Charity Folks, transforms our understanding of slavery and freedom in Revolutionary America. For African American women such as Folks, freedom, like enslavement, was tied to a bondwoman’s reproductive capacities. Their offspring were used to perpetuate the slave economy. Finding loopholes in the law meant that enslaved women could give birth to and raise free children. For Millward, Folks demonstrates the fluidity of the boundaries between slavery and freedom, which was due largely to the gendered space occupied by enslaved women. The gendering of freedom influenced notions of liberty, equality, and race in what became the new nation and had profound implications for African American women’s future interactions with the state.
Author | : Alan Huffman |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2011-01-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1604737549 |
When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slaves' passage to the newly established colony of Liberia in western Africa. Ross's heirs contested the will for more than a decade, prompting a deadly revolt in which a group of slaves burned Ross's mansion to the ground. But the will was ultimately upheld. The slaves then emigrated to their new home, where they battled the local tribes and built vast plantations with Greek Revival-style mansions in a region the Americo-Africans renamed “Mississippi in Africa.” In the late twentieth century, the seeds of resentment sown over a century of cultural conflict between the colonists and tribal people exploded, begetting a civil war that rages in Liberia to this day. Tracking down Prospect Hill's living descendants, deciphering a history ruled by rumor, and delivering the complete chronicle in riveting prose, journalist Alan Huffman has rescued a lost chapter of American history whose aftermath is far from over.
Author | : James H. Johnston |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0823239500 |
A true story of six generations of an African American family in Maryland. Based on paintings, photographs, books, diaries, court records, legal documents, and oral histories, the book traces Yarrow Mamout and his in-laws, the Turners, from the colonial period through the Civil War to Harvard and finally the present day.
Author | : Brian Shellum |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2018-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612349552 |
"The story of seventeen African American officers who trained, reorganized, and commanded the Liberian Frontier Force to defend Liberia between 1910 and 1942"--
Author | : Carole C. Marks |
Publisher | : Delaware Heritage Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780924117121 |