African Americans in the nineteenth century : people and perspectives

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Title:

African Americans in the nineteenth century : people and perspectives

Author:

Haggard, Dixie Ray.

Publication Information:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2010]

Physical Description:

xlvi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Perspectives in American social history

Perspectives in American social history.

Language:

English

Contents:

Africans and African Americans to the 1820s / Free Blacks in antebellum America / Still rising : an intricate look at Black female slaves / Safety in the briar patch : enslaved communities in the nineteenth-century United States / Uncovering the true relationship between masters and slaves / "Yes, we all shall be free" : African Americans make the Civil War a struggle for freedom / African Americans during Reconstruction (1863-1877) / African American responses to early Jim Crow / "Their plows singing beneath the sandy loam" : African American agriculture in the late-nineteenth-century South / African Americans in the nineteenth-century West / Black Indians : America's forgotten people / African American leaders

Subject Term:

African Americans -- History -- 19th century.

African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century.

Slavery -- United States -- 19th century.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.

Added Author:

Haggard, Dixie Ray.

ISBN:

9781598841237

9781598841244

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