Author: John Preston McConnellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Negroes and Their Treatment in Virginia from 1865 to 1867
Author: John Preston McConnellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Negroes and Their Treatment in Virginia from 1865 To 1867
Author: John Preston McConnellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781019533772
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
McConnell's insightful study of race relations in Virginia in the years immediately following the Civil War offers a sobering account of the challenges facing the newly-freed slaves. This book is an essential read for anyone interested in African-American history. 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 Virginia Conservatives, 1867-1879
Author: Jack P. Maddex Jr.Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469648105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The Conservatives won control of the Virginia state government in 1869 and goverened for ten years on a program of integrating their homeland into the structure of the contemporary United States by adopting Yankee" institutions and ideas: industrial capitalism, American nationalsim, Gilded-Age political practices, and a system of race relations that made the Afro-American a free man and officially a citizen but not an equal." Originally published in 1970. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
The Free Negro in Virginia 1619-1865
Author: John H. RussellPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1605206539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
It is one of the least commonly known facts about the Civil War: there were many, many free negroes living in slaveholding states before the Emancipation Proclamation. This monograph on that surprising reality, originally published in 1913, draws on such firsthand documents as court records, contemporary literature and newspaper accounts, and other sources to create the first such portrait of this nearly forgotten chapter of African-American history. From the various origins of the "free negro" classes to their legal and social statuses-regarding everything from their right of travel to their relationship with their enslaved fellows-this "should supply some of the facts upon which the history of the negro race in the United States must be based," wrote author JOHN HENDERSON RUSSELL (b. 1884) in his preface.
The Religious Development of the Negro in Virginia
Author: Joseph Brummell EarnestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Virginia at War, 1865
Author: William C. DavisPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813134692
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
By January 1865, most of Virginia's schools were closed, many newspapers had ceased publication, businesses suffered, and food was scarce. Having endured major defeats on their home soil and the loss of much of the state's territory to the Union army, Virginia's Confederate soldiers began to desert at higher rates than at any other time in the war, returning home to provide their families with whatever assistance they could muster. It was a dark year for Virginia. Virginia at War, 1865 closely examines the end of the Civil War in the Old Dominion, delivering a striking depiction of a state ravaged by violence and destruction. In the final volume of the Virginia at War series, editors William C. Davis and James I. Robertson Jr. have once again assembled an impressive collection of essays covering topics that include land operations, women and families, wartime economy, music and entertainment, the demobilization of Lee's army, and the war's aftermath. The volume ends with the final installment of Judith Brockenbrough McGuire's popular and important Diary of a Southern Refugee during the War. Like the previous four volumes in the series, Virginia at War, 1865 provides valuable insights into the devastating effects of the war on citizens across the state.
Negroes and Their Treatment in Virginia from 1865 to 1867
Author: John Preston McConnellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South
Author: Diane Miller SommervillePublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807876259
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of black rape by examining actual cases of black-on-white rape throughout the nineteenth century. Sommerville demonstrates that despite draconian statutes, accused black rapists frequently avoided execution or castration, largely due to intervention by members of the white community. This leniency belies claims that antebellum white southerners were overcome with anxiety about black rape. In fact, Sommerville argues, there was great fluidity across racial and sexual lines as well as a greater tolerance among whites for intimacy between black males and white females. According to Sommerville, pervasive misogyny fused with class prejudices to shape white responses to accusations of black rape even during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods, a testament to the staying power of ideas about poor women's innate depravity. Based predominantly on court records and supporting legal documentation, Sommerville's examination forces a reassessment of long-held assumptions about the South and race relations as she remaps the social and racial terrain on which southerners--black and white, rich and poor--related to one another over the long nineteenth century.
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
The Negro's Image in the South
Author: Claude H. NolenPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813186455
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Symbolic of the historic conflict between North and South has been the South's attitude toward African Americans. This historical study presents a thorough analysis—derived from books, periodicals, speeches, sermons, lectures, and other documents—of the doctrine of white supremacy.