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Category : East Hartford (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Geer's Hartford City Directory
Author: Publisher:
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Category : East Hartford (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Geer's Hartford City Directory
Author: Publisher:
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Category : East Hartford (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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The Development and Growth of City Directories
Author: A. V. WilliamsPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Compilation of directory publications by major city, worldwide, before 1913.
Municipal Register of the City of Hartford ...
Author: Hartford (Conn.)Hopes and Expectations
Author: Barbara J. BeechingPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438461666
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Describes in rich detail African American daily life among free blacks in the North in the 1860s. Based on a treasure trove of more than two hundred personal letters written in the 1860s, Hopes and Expectations tells the story of three young African Americans in the North. Living on Marylands eastern shore, schoolteacher Rebecca Primus sent home weeklies to her parents in Hartford and also corresponded with friend Addie Brown, a domestic worker back home. Addie wrote voluminously to Rebecca, lamenting their separation and describing her struggle to achieve a semblance of security and stability. Around the same time, Rebeccas brother, Nelson, began writing home about his new life in Boston, as he set out to make a name and a career for himself as an artist. The letters describe their daily lives and touch on race, class, gender, religion, and politics, offering rare entry into individual black lives at that time. Through extensive archival research, Barbara J. Beeching also shows how the story of the Primus family intersects with changes over time in Hartfords black community and the country. Newspapers and census tracts, as well as probate, land, court, and vital records help her trace an arc of local black fortunes between 1830 and 1880. Seeking full equality, blacks sought refinement and respectability through home ownership, literacy, and social gains. One of the many paradoxes Beeching uncovers is that just as the Civil War was tearing the nation apart, a recognizable black middle class was emerging in Hartford. It is a story of individuals, family, and community, of expectation and disappointment, loss and endurance, change and continuity. This is a powerful book and a truly important story. Beeching provides a richly detailed survey of life in Connecticut, the political and racial climates at various historical moments, and the web of intraracial and interracial networks that informed the Primus family experiences. Multifaceted and thoroughly absorbing, Hopes and Expectations will reintroduce people to a New England that they thought they knew. Lois Brown, author of Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution
A Checklist of American Imprints for 1838
Author: Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810821231
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The Connecticut Magazine
Author: William Farrand FelchPublisher:
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 1454
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Grand Rapids City Directories
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Category : Allegan County (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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South Haven City Directories
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Category : Casco (Allegan County, Mich. : Township)
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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