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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Black Family Research
Author: Black Family Research - Records of Post-Civil War Federal Agencies at the National Archives
Author: Reginald WashingtonPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781482022261
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the official repository of the permanently valuable records of the U.S. Government. NARA's vast holdings document the lives and experiences of persons who interacted with the Federal Government. The records created by post–Civil War Federal agencies are perhaps some of the most important records available for the study of black family life and genealogy. Reconstructionera Federal records document the black family's struggle for freedom and equality and provide insight into the Federal Government's policies toward the nearly 4 million African Americans freed at the close of the American Civil War. The records are an extremely rich source of documentation for the African American family historian seeking to “bridge the gap” for the transitional period from slavery to freedom. This reference information paper describes three post–Civil War Federal agencies' records housed at NARA in Washington, DC, and College Park, MD: the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands; the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company; and the Commissioners of Claims. Records of these agencies often provide considerable personal data about the African American family and community, including family relations, marriages, births, deaths, occupations, and places of residence. They can contain the names of slave owners and information concerning black military service, plantation conditions, manumissions, property ownership, migration, and a host of family related matters. While these records represent a major source for African American genealogical research at NARA, there are other Federal records available to assist the black family researcher as well. For details of these records, researchers should consult the Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives (National Archives Trust Fund Board, 2000); Black Studies: A Select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications (National Archives Trust Fund Board, 2007); and Black History: A Guide to Civilian Records in the National Archives (General Services Administration, 1981).
Black family research
Author: United States. National Archives and Records AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Black Family Research
Author: United States. National Archives and Records AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Black Family Research
Author: Publisher:
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Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Black Family Research, Records of Post-Civil War Federal Agencies at the National Archives, Reference Information Paper 108, 2001
Author: Black Family Research; Records of Post-Civil War Federal Agencies at the National Archives
Author: Reginald Washington (comp)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Black Family Research, Records of Post-Civil War Federal Agencies at the National Archives, Reference Information Paper 108, Revised 2003
Author: United States. National Archives and Records AdministrationPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Bound in Wedlock
Author: Tera W. HunterPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674979249
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History Winner of the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize Winner of the Mary Nickliss Prize Winner of the Willie Lee Rose Prize Americans have long viewed marriage between a white man and a white woman as a sacred union. But marriages between African Americans have seldom been treated with the same reverence. This discriminatory legacy traces back to centuries of slavery, when the overwhelming majority of black married couples were bound in servitude as well as wedlock, but it does not end there. Bound in Wedlock is the first comprehensive history of African American marriage in the nineteenth century. Drawing from plantation records, legal documents, and personal family papers, it reveals the many creative ways enslaved couples found to upend white Christian ideas of marriage. “A remarkable book... Hunter has harvested stories of human resilience from the cruelest of soils... An impeccably crafted testament to the African-Americans whose ingenuity, steadfast love and hard-nosed determination protected black family life under the most trying of circumstances.” —Wall Street Journal “In this brilliantly researched book, Hunter examines the experiences of slave marriages as well as the marriages of free blacks.” —Vibe “A groundbreaking history... Illuminates the complex and flexible character of black intimacy and kinship and the precariousness of marriage in the context of racial and economic inequality. It is a brilliant book.” —Saidiya Hartman, author of Lose Your Mother
African American Genealogical Research
Author: Paul R. BegleyPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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