Author: Robert Francis EngsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Freedom's First Generation
Author: Robert Francis EngsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Hampton, Virginia
Author: Colita Nichols FairfaxPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738518107
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
From the Civil War period, Hampton's African-American community has fashioned strong churches, institutions, businesses, and a major university where political and economic leaders have emerged. The indefatigable spirit of a people once called "contraband" has a remarkable story illustrated by vintage photographs of Emancipation Oak, Freedom Fortress, Aberdeen Gardens, Little England Chapel, Bayshore Beach, and other historic sites.
The Negro in Virginia
Author: Virginia Writers' ProjectPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Negro in Virginia
Author: Writers' program (Va.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Free Negro in Virginia, 1619-1865
Author: John Henderson RussellPublisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery
Author: Henry GoingsPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813932386
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada. Born Elijah Turner in the Virginia Tidewater, circa 1810, the author eventually procured freedom papers from a man he resembled and took the man’s name, Henry Goings. His life story takes us on an epic journey, traveling from his Virginia birthplace through the cotton kingdom of the Lower South, and upon his escape from slavery, through Tennessee and Kentucky, then on to the Great Lakes region of the North and to Canada. His Rambles show that slaves were found not only in fields but also on the nation’s roads and rivers, perpetually in motion in massive coffles or as solitary runaways. A freedom narrative as well as a slave narrative, this compact yet detailed book illustrates many important developments in antebellum America, such as the large-scale forced migration of enslaved people from long-established slave societies in the eastern United States to new settlements on the cotton frontier, the political-economic processes that framed that migration, and the accompanying human anguish. Goings’s life and reflections serve as important primary documents of African American life and of American national expansion, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. This edition features an informative and insightful introduction by Calvin Schermerhorn.
God Made Man, Man Made the Slave
Author: George TeamohPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
George Teamoh was born in 1818 in Norfolk, Virginia. His parents were slaves named David and Lavinia. He was owned by Josiah and Jane Thomas who hired him out to various businesses. In 1841 he married Sallie and had three children. In 1853 he was separated from his family when they were sold to different slaveholders. His owners allowed him to move to Boston and in 1863 he married Elizabeth Smith, whom he divorced two years later. In 1865 he returned to Portsmouth, Virginia and remarried his wife Sallie. He became an influential leader in local politics and public education. He was the first black man to serve as a state senator. He died about 1883.
Freedom's First Generation
Author: Robert Francis EngsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780823247882
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
History of Hampton and Elizabeth City County, Virginia
Author: Lyon Gardiner TylerPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015905696
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Free Negro in Virginia, 1619-1865
Author: John Henderson RussellPublisher: New York : Dover Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
"An unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published in 1913." Bibliography: p. 178-186.