Slavery on the Periphery

Slavery on the Periphery
Author: Kristen Epps
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 0820350508

Slavery on the Periphery focuses on nineteen counties on the Kansas-Missouri border, tracing slavery's rise and fall from the earliest years of American settlement through the Civil War along this critical geographical, political, and social fault line.

In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990

In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990
Author: Quintard Taylor
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 450
Release: 1999-05-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393318893

The American West is mistakenly known as a region with few African Americans and virtually no black history. This work challenges that view in a chronicle that begins in 1528 and carries through to the present-day black success in politics and the surging interest in multiculturalism.