Author : William H. Pease
Publisher : Madison : State Historical Society of Wisconsin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Book Synopsis Black Utopia; Negro Communal Experiments in America by : William H. Pease
Download or read book Black Utopia; Negro Communal Experiments in America written by William H. Pease and published by Madison : State Historical Society of Wisconsin. This book was released on 1963 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the years before the Civil War, a number of communities were founded by free African Americans, with the aim of establishing vocational and academic training and political and economic independence. This book tells the stories of these utopian experiments in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, southwestern Ontario, and elsewhere, including Frances Wright's Nashoba, the Port Royal settlement in Carolina, and the Canadian communities founded by William King, Hiram Wilson, and Josiah Henson"--Publisher's description.