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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration: Mississippi cotton plantations
Author: Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration
Author: Daniel LewisPublisher: LexisNexis
ISBN: 9781556559181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration: Louisiana cotton plantations : Microfilm 22,813 (15 reels)
Author: University Publications of America (Firm)Publisher: LexisNexis
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration
Author: University Publications of America (Firm)Publisher: LexisNexis
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Second Great Emancipation: Mech.cottonpicker, Black Migration & Modern South (c)
Author: Donald HolleyPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610753678
Category : African American agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"Development of the mechanical cotton picker not only made possible the continuation of cotton cultivation in the post-plantation era, it helped free the region of Jim Crow laws as political power was relocated from farms to cities and thereby opened the door for the civil rights movement of the 1950s. Just as President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed African Americans from chattel slavery, the mechanical cotton picker freed laborers from the drudgery of the cotton harvest and brought the agricultural South into a period of prosperity."--Jacket
A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your African-American Ancestors
Author: Franklin Carter SmithPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Tracing one's African-American ancestry can be uniquely challenging. This guide helps overcome the obstacles and pitfalls of specialized research by offering a proven, three-part approach.
The Half Has Never Been Told
Author: Edward E BaptistPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465097685
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
A groundbreaking history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people Winner of the 2015 Avery O. Craven Prize from the Organization of American Historians Winner of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution -- the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian Edward E. Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Told through the intimate testimonies of survivors of slavery, plantation records, newspapers, as well as the words of politicians and entrepreneurs, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history.
Slavery by Another Name
Author: Douglas A. BlackmonPublisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1848314132
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
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Author: A Mind to Stay
Author: Sydney NathansPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674977890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The exodus of millions of African Americans from the rural South is a central theme of black life and liberation in the twentieth century. A Mind to Stay offers a counterpoint to the narrative of the Great Migration. Sydney Nathans tells the rare story of people who moved from being enslaved to becoming owners of the very land they had worked in bondage, and who have held on to it from emancipation through the Civil Rights era. The story began in 1844, when North Carolina planter Paul Cameron bought 1,600 acres near Greensboro, Alabama, and sent out 114 enslaved people to cultivate cotton and enlarge his fortune. In the 1870s, he sold the plantation to emancipated black families who worked there. Drawing on thousands of letters from the planter and on interviews with descendants of those who bought the land, Nathans unravels how and why the planter’s former laborers purchased the site of their enslavement, kept its name as Cameron Place, and defended their homeland against challengers from the Jim Crow era to the present day. Through the prism of a single plantation and the destiny of black families that dwelt on it for over a century and a half, A Mind to Stay brings to life a vivid cast of characters and illuminates the changing meaning of land and landowning to successive generations of rural African Americans. Those who remained fought to make their lives fully free—for themselves, for their neighbors, and for those who might someday return.