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Slavery and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Old South
by James Oakes  Publisher Comments Historian James Oakes's pathbreaking interpretation of the slaveholding South demonstrates that slavery and freedom were not mutually exclusive but were intertwined in every dimension of life in the South, influencing relations between masters and slaves,...
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The Other Brahmins: Boston's Black Upper Class, 1750-1950 (Black Community Studies)
by Adelaide M. Cromwell Synopsis This pioneering work explores race and the social caste system in an atypical northern environment over a very broad time span. Most effectively, it challenges our simplistic notions of hierarchy as they pertain to race....
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African American Organized Crime : a Social History (96 Edition)
by Rufus Schatzberg Publisher Comments Comprehensive and objective, this study argues that organized crime in the United States results from the struggle to attain the elusive American Dream to achieve success at any cost by any means. The authors examine the social, economic, political, and...
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Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War (Music in American Life)
by Dena J. Epstein Publisher Comments "This book is awarded both the Chicago Folklore Prize and the Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association. From the plaintive tunes of woe sung by exiled kings and queens of Africa to the spirited work songs and ""shouts"" of freedmen, in...
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Black Manhood on the Silent Screen (Culture America)
by Gerald R., Jr. Butters Publisher Comments In early-twentieth-century motion picture houses, offensive stereotypes of African Americans were as predictable as they were prevalent. Watermelon eating, chicken thievery, savages with uncontrollable appetites, Sambo and Zip Coon were all...
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The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities
by Lawrence C., Jr. Ross Publisher Comments Today, America's nine black fraternities and sororities are 2.5 million members strong. This meticulously researched history tells how these organizations have played a major role in shaping generations of black leaders. of photos....
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Black Heritage Sites #2: Black Heritage Sites: The South
by Nancy Curtis Publisher Comments Curtis details places of national and local significance in the South, including churches and schools, battlefields, cemeteries, and landmarks of the 1950s civil right movement. 150 photos....
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To Be Popular Or Smart : the Black Peer Group (88 Edition)
by Jawanza Kunjufu Publisher Comments Information on peer pressure and how the peer group can be used to reinforce academic achievement....
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Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
by Nell Irvin Painter Publisher Comments Here is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter blends a vivid narrative based on the latest research with a wonderful array of artwork by African American...
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The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac
by Josephine F. Pacheco Publisher Comments In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania. When inclement weather forced them to anchor for...
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Slavery in Florida : Territorial Days To Emancipation (00 Edition)
by Larry Eugene Rivers Publisher Comments This illustrated social history of slavery tells what life was like for bond servants in Florida from 1821 to 1865, offering new insights from the perspective of both slave and master. Starting with an overview of the institution as it evolved during the...
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Struggle for Freedom : History of African Americans, Concise Edition, Volume I (06 Edition)
by Clayborne Carson Publisher Comments The biographical approach of "The Struggle for Freedom: A History of African Americans" uses African American lives and stories as the basis for understanding and analysis not only of the black experience in America but of American history in the whole...
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Black Heroes
by Jessie Carney Smith Publisher Comments Now available for the first time in paperback, Black Heroes is a who's who of cultural importance to all Americans. In recognition and celebration of African American achievement over the past 100 years, this landmark book details the lives of 150...
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All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
by Martha Jones Publisher Comments The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. All Bound Up Together explores the roles black women played in their communities...
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Joining Places Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Cult)
by Anthony E Kaye Publisher Comments In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go...
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Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste
by Mark Stuart Weiner Publisher Comments A sweeping history of American ideas of belonging and citizenship, told through the stories of fourteen legal cases that helped to shape our nation. Spanning the period from colonial times to the present, Black Trials tells how the place of blacks in...
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Syracuse African Americans (Black America)
by Barbara Sheklin Davis Publisher Comments Syracuse African Americans abounds with hard work, forbearance, determination, strength, and spirit. It depicts through photographs the heritage of this upstate New York African American community. The story spans several centuries, beginning when...
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The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man: Recollections of H.C. Bruce (Blacks in the American West)
by Henry Clay Bruce Publisher Comments Born to black slaves in 1836, H.C. Bruce took the name of his master, a farmer in Prince Edward County, Virginia. After years of slaving on the plantation in Missouri and working in tobacco factories, Bruce escaped to freedom in Kansas with his future...
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Blackwell Companion to African American History (Blackwell Companions to American History)
by Alton, Jr. Hornsby Publisher Comments A Companion to African American History is a collection of original and authoritative essays arranged thematically and topically, covering a wide range of subjects from the 17th century to the present day....
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Struggle Continues: Six Panaf Pamphlets
by Kwame Nkrumah Publisher Comments THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES The six pamphlets in this book reflect the indomitable spirit of Kwame Nkrumah, the symbol of fighting Africa. The first, What I Mean by Positive Action, was written in 1949 when the campaign for the independence of Ghana was at...
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