Author: New HampshirePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Laws of New Hampshire: Second constitutional period, 1829-1835
Author: New HampshireLaws of New Hampshire: Second constitutional period, 1821-1828
Author: New HampshireHistorical New Hampshire
Author: Richard Potter
Author: John A. HodgsonPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813941059
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Apart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular entertainer in America--the first showman, in fact, to win truly nationwide fame. Working as a magician and ventriloquist, he personified for an entire generation what a popular performer was and made an invaluable contribution to establishing popular entertainment as a major part of American life. His story is all the more remarkable in that Richard Potter was also a black man. This was an era when few African Americans became highly successful, much less famous. As the son of a slave, Potter was fortunate to have opportunities at all. At home in Boston, he was widely recognized as black, but elsewhere in America audiences entertained themselves with romantic speculations about his "Hindu" ancestry (a perception encouraged by his act and costumes). Richard Potter’s performances were enjoyed by an enormous public, but his life off stage has always remained hidden and unknown. Now, for the first time, John A. Hodgson tells the remarkable, compelling--and ultimately heartbreaking--story of Potter’s life, a tale of professional success and celebrity counterbalanced by racial vulnerability in an increasingly hostile world. It is a story of race relations, too, and of remarkable, highly influential black gentlemanliness and respectability: as the unsung precursor of Frederick Douglass, Richard Potter demonstrated to an entire generation of Americans that a black man, no less than a white man, could exemplify the best qualities of humanity. The apparently trivial "popular entertainment" status of his work has long blinded historians to his significance and even to his presence. Now at last we can recognize him as a seminal figure in American history.
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin
Author: Writings on American History
Author: Henry Wilson and the Coming of the Civil War
Author: John L. MyersPublisher: Rlpg/Galleys
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
This biography deals with the life of Henry Wilson, one of the most important figures of the middle third of the Nineteenth Century, up to the time of the Civil War. Among its concerns are the political antislavery movement, economic development, the rise of a working class politician in an aristocratic-controlled state, prohibition, and Massachusetts state history.
Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service
Author: Public Affairs Information ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description