Author: Luther Porter JacksonPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Free Negro Labor and Property Holding in Virginia, 1830-1860
Author: Luther Porter JacksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Free Negro Labor and Property Holding in Virginia, 1830-1860. By Luther Porter Jackson
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Free Negro Labor and Property Holding in Virginia, 1830-1860. With a New Pref. by James H. Brewer
Author: Luther Porter JacksonPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Free Negro and Property Holding in Virginia, 1830-1860
Author: The Free Negro in Virginia, 1619-1865
Author: John H B 1884 RussellPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015815063
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, 1619-1895
Author: John Henderson RussellPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Free Negro in Virginia, 1619-1865
Author: John Henderson RussellPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230446226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...A 6812. "Ibid.. 1840, A6821. "Code (1849), P. 754; Code (1860), p. 816. 45 Acts, 1839, p. 24. "See a petition to the legislature which represents that both free negroes and dogs kill sheep as they prowl through the neighborhood (MS. Petitions, Chesterfield County, 1854, A4321). "Acts, 1847-1848; House Journal, 1847-1848, p. 436. "Acts, 1857-1858, p. 152. out the State passed the House of Delegates in 1848, hut failed to receive the approval of the Senate.52 The laws of Virginia extended their protection not only, as we have already seen, to the property of the free negro, but, as we shall now see, to his life and liberty. In any case in which the freedom' of a negro was disputed the burden of proof was upon the negro to show that he was free. Unlike the recognized principle of English law which demands that every man be regarded as innocent till his guilt is established by evidence, a free negro taken up and deprived of his liberty as being a slave had, in order to procure his release, to produce evidence that he was not a slave. In 1806 George Wythe, chancellor of the State of Virginia, gave as grounds for decreeing the freedom of three persons claimed as slaves that freedom is the birthright of every human being. He laid it down as a general proposition that whenever one person claims to hold another in slavery, the onus probandi lies on the claimant. This application of the Declaration of Independence was completely repudiated by the supreme court of appeals when the case came'up for final review.58 Judge Tucker, who spoke for a unanimous court, asserted that the burden of proof is not upoA the claimant, but upon the negro to show that he is free; whereas with a white man or an Indian held in slavery the burden...
The Negro in Virginia
Author: Publisher: Blair
ISBN: 9780895871190
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Slavery is as basic a part of Virginia history as George Washington, who was accompanied at Valley Forge and Yorktown by his slave William Lee, and Thomas Jefferson, who directed his slaves to cut 30 feet off a mountaintop for the site of Monticello. Slavery in the Old Dominion began in 1619, when a Spanish frigate was captured and its cargo of Negroes brought to Jamestown. Virginia Negroes experienced slavery as field laborers, as skilled craftsmen, as house servants. In 1935, the Virginia Writers' Project began collecting data for a history of Negroes in the Old Dominion through the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Depression. Published in 1940 as "The Negro in Virginia", it was regarded as a "classic of its kind." Modern readers will be surprised at how relevant it remains today. -- From publisher's description.
Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915
Author: Loren SchweningerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252066344
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Property ownership has been a traditional means for African Americans to gain recognition and enter the mainstream of American life. This landmark study documents this significant, but often overlooked, aspect of the black experience from the late eighteenth century to World War I.
Black Labor in Richmond, 1865-1890
Author: Peter J. RachleffPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252060267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
''The best study yet written about the ex-slave as urban wage-earner. It is essential reading for students of Afro-American and working-class history.'' -- Herbert Gutman''This book shows that black and white workers could act together and that a working-class reform movement, at least in one southern city, could challenge the existing status quo. . . . Rachleff presents an interesting story of social, economic, and political intrigue in a post-Civil War urban environment where class was pitted against class and race against race.'' -- C. K. McFarland, Journal of Southern History