Author: Clement Alexander PricePublisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Freedom Not Far Distant
Author: Clement Alexander PricePublisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Freedom not far distant
Author: Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North
Author: Graham Russell HodgesPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780945612513
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Focusing on the development of a single African American community in eastern New Jersey, Hodges examines the experience of slavery and freedom in the rural north. This unique social history addresses many long held assumptions about the experience of slavery and emancipation outside the south. For example, by tracing the process by which whites maintained "a durable architecture of oppression" and a rigid racial hierarchy, it challenges the notions that slavery was milder and that racial boundaries were more permeable in the north. Monmouth County, New Jersey, because of its rich African American heritage and equally well-preserved historical record, provides an outstanding opportunity to study the rural life of an entire community over the course of two centuries. Hodges weaves an intricate pattern of life and death, work and worship, from the earliest settlement to the end of the Civil War.
Black New Jersey
Author: Graham Russell HodgesPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813595185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Black New Jersey brings to life generations of courageous men and women who fought for freedom during slavery days and later battled racial discrimination. Extensively researched, it shines a light on New Jersey's unique African American history and reveals how the state's black citizens helped to shape the nation.
"This Honorable Court"
Author: Mark Edward LenderPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813538044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
In this first historical account of the District of New Jersey, Mark Edward Lender traces its evolution from its origins through the turn of the twenty-first century. Drawing on extensive original records, including those in the National Archives, he shows how it was at the district court level that the new nation first tested the role of federal law and authority. From these early decades through today, the cases tried in New Jersey stand as prime examples of the legal and constitutional developments that have shaped the course of federal justice. At critical moments in our history, the courts participated in the Alien and Sedition Acts, the transition from Federalist to Jeffersonian political authority, the balancing of state and federal roles during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and modern controversies over civil rights and affirmative
Suburban Erasure
Author: Walter David GreasonPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN: 1611475716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Suburban Erasure explains how racial inequality adapted in the twentieth century in order to shape American society today. It celebrates the voices of unheralded civil rights leaders, while clearly explaining how suburbs reflect earlier patterns of segregation./span
Writing through Jane Crow
Author: Ayesha K. HardisonPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813935946
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In Writing through Jane Crow, Ayesha Hardison examines African American literature and its representation of black women during the pivotal but frequently overlooked decades of the 1940s and 1950s. At the height of Jim Crow racial segregation—a time of transition between the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movement and between World War II and the modern civil rights movement—black writers also addressed the effects of "Jane Crow," the interconnected racial, gender, and sexual oppression that black women experienced. Hardison maps the contours of this literary moment with the understudied works of well-known writers like Gwendolyn Brooks, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, and Richard Wright as well as the writings of neglected figures like Curtis Lucas, Pauli Murray, and Era Bell Thompson. By shifting her focus from the canonical works of male writers who dominated the period, the author recovers the work of black women writers. Hardison shows how their texts anticipated the renaissance of black women’s writing in later decades and initiates new conversations on the representation of women in texts by black male writers. She draws on a rich collection of memoirs, music, etiquette guides, and comics to further reveal the texture and tensions of the era. A 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
A view of patriotism; of freedom, etc
Author: Slavery and Freedom Among Early American Workers
Author: Graham Russell HodgesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315503395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Covering a chronological span from the seventeenth century to the Civil War, the book reunites black and labor history, including such major topics as the formation of slavery in the North, the American Revolution, blacks and the Workingmen's Movement, and interracial marriage before the Civil War. This book provides fascinating reading for students of American history, labor history, urban history, and black history.
Slavery, Freedom and Culture Among Early American Workers
Author: Graham Russell HodgesPublisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9780765601131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This text consists of six chapters, all on the related subjects of black revolt, slavery, freemanship and labour. A short introduction organizes the collection and argues its importance for historians of early American labour, slavery, black studies and general history.