Author: Women's National Indian Association (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Annual Report of the Women's National Indian Association
Author: Women's National Indian Association (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Emilie Davis’s Civil War
Author: Judith GiesbergPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271064315
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute for Colored Youth, and was an active member of her community. She lived an average life in her day, but what sets her apart is that she kept a diary. Her daily entries from 1863 to 1865 touch on the momentous and the mundane: she discusses her own and her community’s reactions to events of the war, such as the Battle of Gettysburg, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the assassination of President Lincoln, as well as the minutiae of social life in Philadelphia’s black community. Her diaries allow the reader to experience the Civil War in “real time” and are a counterpoint to more widely known diaries of the period. Judith Giesberg has written an accessible introduction, situating Davis and her diaries within the historical, cultural, and political context of wartime Philadelphia. In addition to furnishing a new window through which to view the war’s major events, Davis’s diaries give us a rare look at how the war was experienced as a part of everyday life—how its dramatic turns and lulls and its pervasive, agonizing uncertainty affected a northern city with a vibrant black community.
Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate, and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
Author: PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1386
Book Description
Report on Condition of Woman and Child-wage Earners in the United States: History of women in trade unions
Author: United States. Bureau of LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child labor
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
Author: Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America
Author: Leslie A. SchwalmPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469672707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This social and cultural history of Civil War medicine and science sheds important light on the question of why and how anti-Black racism survived the destruction of slavery. During the war, white Northerners promoted ideas about Black inferiority under the guise of medical and scientific authority. In particular, the Sanitary Commission and Army medical personnel conducted wartime research aimed at proving Black medical and biological inferiority. They not only subjected Black soldiers and refugees from slavery to substandard health care but also scrutinized them as objects of study. This mistreatment of Black soldiers and civilians extended after life to include dissection, dismemberment, and disposal of the Black war dead in unmarked or mass graves and medical waste pits. Simultaneously, white medical and scientific investigators enhanced their professional standing by establishing their authority on the science of racial difference and hierarchy. Drawing on archives of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, recollections of Civil War soldiers and medical workers, and testimonies from Black Americans, Leslie A. Schwalm exposes the racist ideas and practices that shaped wartime medicine and science. Painstakingly researched and accessibly written, this book helps readers understand the persistence of anti-Black racism and health disparities during and after the war.
Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports
Author: PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1980
Book Description
Notes from a Colored Girl
Author: Karsonya Wise WhiteheadPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 1611173531
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This historical biography provides a scholarly analysis of the personal diaries of a young, freeborn mulatto woman during the Civil War years. In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and experiences of Emilie Frances Davis through a close reading of three pocket diaries she kept from 1863 to 1865. Whitehead explores Davis’s worldviews and politics, her perceptions of both public and private events, her personal relationships, and her place in Philadelphia’s free black community in the nineteenth century. The book also includes a six-chapter historical reconstruction of Davis’s life. While Davis’s entries provide brief, daily snapshots of her life, Whitehead interprets them in ways that illuminate nineteenth-century black American women’s experiences. Whitehead’s contribution of edited text and original narrative fills a void in scholarly documentation of women who dwelled in spaces between white elites, black entrepreneurs, and urban dwellers of every race and class. Drawing on scholarly traditions from history, literature, feminist studies, and sociolinguistics, Whitehead investigates Davis’s diary both as a complete literary artifact and in terms of her specific daily entries. With few primary sources written by black women during this time in history, Davis’s diary is a rare and extraordinarily valuable historical artifact.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Tasting Freedom
Author: Daniel R. BiddlePublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 159213467X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The life and times of the extraordinary Octavius Catto, and the first civil rights movement in America.