Author: John Mercer LangstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol; Or, The First and Only Negro Representative in Congress from the Old Dominion
Author: John Mercer LangstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capital
Author: John Mercer LangstonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781482737721
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Published in 1894, this is the biography of John Mercer Langston, an African-American who served as the the first U.S. Representative to Washington D.C.
From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol
Author: John Mercer LangstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol
Author: John Mercer LangstonBonds of Union
Author: Bridget FordPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469626233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
This vivid history of the Civil War era reveals how unexpected bonds of union forged among diverse peoples in the Ohio-Kentucky borderlands furthered emancipation through a period of spiraling chaos between 1830 and 1865. Moving beyond familiar arguments about Lincoln's deft politics or regional commercial ties, Bridget Ford recovers the potent religious, racial, and political attachments holding the country together at one of its most likely breaking points, the Ohio River. Living in a bitterly contested region, the Americans examined here--Protestant and Catholic, black and white, northerner and southerner--made zealous efforts to understand the daily lives and struggles of those on the opposite side of vexing human and ideological divides. In their common pursuits of religious devotionalism, universal public education regardless of race, and relief from suffering during wartime, Ford discovers a surprisingly capacious and inclusive sense of political union in the Civil War era. While accounting for the era's many disintegrative forces, Ford reveals the imaginative work that went into bridging stark differences in lived experience, and she posits that work as a precondition for slavery's end and the Union's persistence.
Trace
Author: Lauret SavoyPublisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619026686
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
With a New Preface by the Author Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America’s still unfolding history and ideas of “race” have marked its people and the land. Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life–defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent’s past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land—lie largely eroded and lost. A provocative and powerful mosaic that ranges across a continent and across time, from twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from “Indian Territory” and the U.S.–Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past. In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons. Gifted with this manifold vision, and graced by a scientific and lyrical diligence, she delves through fragmented histories—natural, personal, cultural—to find shadowy outlines of other stories of place in America. "Every landscape is an accumulation," reads one epigraph. "Life must be lived amidst that which was made before." Courageously and masterfully, Lauret Savoy does so in this beautiful book: she lives there, making sense of this land and its troubled past, reconciling what it means to inhabit terrains of memory—and to be one.
Women Doctors in Gilded-age Washington
Author: Gloria MoldowPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252013799
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison
Author: William Lloyd GarrisonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674526662
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), outstanding among the dedicated fighters for the abolition of slavery, was also an activist in other movements such as women's and civil rights and religious reform. Never tiring in battle, he was 'irrepressible, uncompromising, and inflammatory.' He antagonized many, including some of his fellow reformers. There were also many who loved and respected him. But he was never overlooked.
African-American Political Leaders
Author: Charles W. CareyPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438107803
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
One of the most remarkable episodes in the history of U.S. politics is the rise to power of African-American political leaders. Although the first Africans to come to this country were treated as indentured servants
Where Death and Glory Meet
Author: Russell DuncanPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820321362
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
On July 18, 1863, the African American soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry led a courageous but ill-fated charge on Fort Wagner, a key bastion guarding Charleston harbor. Confederate defenders killed, wounded, or made prisoners of half the regiment. Only hours later, the body of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the regiment's white commander, was thrown into a mass grave with those of twenty of his men. The assault promoted the young colonel to the higher rank of martyr, ranking him alongside the legendary John Brown in the eyes of abolitionists. In this biography of Shaw, Russell Duncan presents a poignant portrait of an average young soldier, just past the cusp of manhood and still struggling against his mother's indomitable will, thrust unexpectedly into the national limelight. Using information gleaned from Shaw's letters home before and during the war, Duncan tells the story of the rebellious son of wealthy Boston abolitionists who never fully reconciled his own racial prejudices yet went on to head the North's vanguard black regiment and give his life to the cause of freedom. This thorough biography looks at Shaw from historical and psychological viewpoints and examines the complex family relationships that so strongly influenced him.