Author: Tyrone BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9780788486036
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Virginia 1850 and 1860
Author: Tyrone BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9780788486036
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
A History of Railroads in Virginia, 1850-1860
Author: Mark NauglePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Rockbridge County, Virginia in the Late Antebellum Period, 1850-1860
Author: John Brooks FlippenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rockbridge County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Race Relations in Virginia & Miscegenation in the South, 1776-1860
Author: James Hugo JohnstonPublisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
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Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, 1790-1860
Author: Tommy BoggerPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813916903
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Very few studies of free blacks have attempted to interpret the actions and events affecting them from their own perspectives. At the same time. the search for understanding the antebellum black experience in the South usually has centered on slaves. In Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, 1790-1860, Tommy L. Bogger portrays lives somewhere between slavery and freedom. A free black community of skilled artisans and semi-skilled laborers emerged in Norfolk around 1800. Some free blacks earned the respect of leading white businessmen, and many enjoyed easy access to credit and steady employment. They showed no hesitation in suing recalcitrant debtors -- black or white -- and until 1805 they could count on the cooperation of court officials in helping them to collect. But from then on. free blacks experienced a steady decline in status that continued throughout the antebellum period. Legal restraints were placed on them at the same time that Norfolk's economy stagnated. and white immigrants arriving in the 1830s entered fields once monopolized by blacks. By the 1850s the free black community was sunk in hopelessness and despair. Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, 1790-1860 discusses the active roles that blacks played in creating their community, contradicting prevalent images of free blacks at the mercy of whites. While previous studies of Virginia's free blacks have focused on Richmond or Petersburg, developments in Norfolk's free black community also merit analysis. Norfolk also offers the advantage of a population large enough to provide a reliable data base yet small enough to preserve the stories of individual lives. Those interested in African-American history, Virginia history, orthe South in general will find this book a valuable new resource.
Franklin County, Virginia 1850 & 1860 Censuses
Author: Karen Mann RobuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Franklin County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Bedford County, Virginia, 1840-1860
Author: W. Harrison DanielPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bedford County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
African/Freedmen in Elizabeth City County (Hampton Virginia)
Author: Joan CharlesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Irish in Early Virginia, 1600-1860
Author: Kevin DonleavyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780926487772
Category : Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Civil War Echoes
Author: James Robertson, Jr.Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983401261
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Selections from the James I. Robertson, Jr. Civil War Sesquicentennial Legacy Collection