Author: Virginia Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Guide to African American Manuscripts in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society
Author: Virginia Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Guide to African-American Manuscripts in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society
Author: Virginia Historical SocietyPublisher: Virginia Histotical Society
ISBN: 9780945015130
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Bound to the Fire
Author: Kelley Fanto DeetzPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813174740
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
For decades, smiling images of "Aunt Jemima" and other historical and fictional black cooks could be found on various food products and in advertising. Although these images were sanitized and romanticized in American popular culture, they represented the untold stories of enslaved men and women who had a significant impact on the nation's culinary and hospitality traditions, even as they were forced to prepare food for their oppressors. Kelley Fanto Deetz draws upon archaeological evidence, cookbooks, plantation records, and folklore to present a nuanced study of the lives of enslaved plantation cooks from colonial times through emancipation and beyond. She reveals how these men and women were literally "bound to the fire" as they lived and worked in the sweltering and often fetid conditions of plantation house kitchens. These highly skilled cooks drew upon knowledge and ingredients brought with them from their African homelands to create complex, labor-intensive dishes. However, their white owners overwhelmingly received the credit for their creations. Deetz restores these forgotten figures to their rightful place in American and Southern history by uncovering their rich and intricate stories and celebrating their living legacy with the recipes that they created and passed down to future generations.
Virginia's Civil War
Author: Peter WallensteinPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813923154
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
What did the Civil War mean to Virginia-and what did Virginia mean to the Civil War?
Afro-American Sources in Virginia
Author: Michael PlunkettPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Describes the relevant holdings of 23 different libraries in the commonwealth.
The Story of Virginia
Author: Sara B. BearssPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Virginia Waterways and the Underground Railroad
Author: Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander, PhDPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625859635
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
A part of the Underground Railroad, read here of enslaved people and their stories of using Virginia's waterways to achieve freedom. Enslaved Virginians sought freedom from the time they were first brought to the Jamestown colony in 1619. Acts of self-emancipation were aided by Virginia's waterways, which became part of the network of the Underground Railroad in the years before the Civil War. Watermen willing to help escaped slaves made eighteenth-century Norfolk a haven for freedom seekers. Famous nineteenth-century escapees like Shadrack Minkins and Henry Box Brown were aided by the Underground Railroad. Enslaved men like Henry Lewey, known as Bluebeard, aided freedom seekers as conductors, and black and white sympathizers acted as station masters. Historian Cassandra Newby-Alexander narrates the ways that enslaved people used Virginia's waterways to achieve humanity's dream of freedom.
Eye of the Storm
Author: Charles F. Bryan, Jr.Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684863669
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In this historical treasure, now restored to posterity, text and drawings by a Union cartographer record the daily life of Civil war soldiers, the firsthand observation of officers, and the battles he witnessed from Yorkville to Bull Run. 85 full-color illustrations.
Making the American Dream Work
Author: Lauranett LeePublisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 9781600374661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
What can a small industrial city in Virginia named Hopewell tell us about its experiment in possibilities? Located at the intersection of the Appomattox and James Rivers, this wondrous place was poised to yield "the greatest hope ever." From America's founding years to the twenty-first century Hopewell's historic sights and the stories that citizens tell about their lives provide glimpses into an ever changing landscape that embodies all the American dream has come to symbolize.
The Harvard Guide to African-American History
Author: Evelyn Brooks HigginbothamPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674002760
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.