The African American Community In Rural New England

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The African American Community in Rural New England

Author : David H. Levinson
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 161472833X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book The African American Community in Rural New England written by David H. Levinson and published by Berkshire Publishing Group. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African American Community in Rural New England: W. E. B. Du Bois and His Boyhood Church: W. E. B. Du Bois and His Boyhood Church (formerly published in hardcover as Sewing Circles, Dime Suppers, and W. E. B. Du Bois: A History of the Clinton A. M. E. Zion Church) is a story of a small New England church's role in the national civil rights movement. Featuring more famous figures such as Du Bois, this book also tells the story of the church's lesser known members who struggled to keep it in existence, all the while fighting for their rights in a shifting social climate. The African American Community in Rural New England is the often heroic tale of a small group of African Americans who founded and have maintained their church in a small New England town for nearly 140 years. The church is the Clinton African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and the town is Great Barrington, Massachusetts - the hometown of the leading African American scholar and activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Du Bois attended the church as a youth and wrote about it; these writings are one source for this history. The book gives readers a broad view of the details of the church's history and recounts the story of its growth. Du Bois plays a crucial role in the national fight for social justice, of which the church was and remains an important part.

Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds

Author : Jared Hardesty
Publisher : Bright Leaf
ISBN 13 : 9781625344564
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (445 download)

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Download or read book Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds written by Jared Hardesty and published by Bright Leaf. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area's indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, enslaved people comprised only about 4 percent of the population, but slavery had become instrumental to the region's economy and had shaped its cultural traditions. This story of slavery in New England has been little told. In this concise yet comprehensive history, Jared Ross Hardesty focuses on the individual stories of enslaved people, bringing their experiences to life. He also explores larger issues such as the importance of slavery to the colonization of the region and to agriculture and industry, New England's deep connections to Caribbean plantation societies, and the significance of emancipation movements in the era of the American Revolution. Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of New England.

African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950

Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826219608
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950 written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first half of the twentieth century, degradation, poverty, and hopelessness were commonplace for African Americans who lived in the South's countryside, either on farms or in rural communities. Many southern blacks sought relief from these conditions by migrating to urban centers. Many others, however, continued to live in rural areas. Scholars of African American rural history in the South have been concerned primarily with the experience of blacks as sharecroppers, tenant farmers, textile workers, and miners. Less attention has been given to other aspects of the rural African American experience during the early twentieth century. African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950 provides important new information about African American culture, social life, and religion, as well as economics, federal policy, migration, and civil rights. The essays particularly emphasize the efforts of African Americans to negotiate the white world in the southern countryside. Filling a void in southern studies, this outstanding collection provides a substantive overview of the subject. Scholars, students, and teachers of African American, southern, agricultural, and rural history will find this work invaluable.

Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North

Author : Graham Russell Hodges
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780945612513
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North written by Graham Russell Hodges and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1997 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the development of a single African American community in eastern New Jersey, Hodges examines the experience of slavery and freedom in the rural north. This unique social history addresses many long held assumptions about the experience of slavery and emancipation outside the south. For example, by tracing the process by which whites maintained "a durable architecture of oppression" and a rigid racial hierarchy, it challenges the notions that slavery was milder and that racial boundaries were more permeable in the north. Monmouth County, New Jersey, because of its rich African American heritage and equally well-preserved historical record, provides an outstanding opportunity to study the rural life of an entire community over the course of two centuries. Hodges weaves an intricate pattern of life and death, work and worship, from the earliest settlement to the end of the Civil War.

Sewing Circles, Dime Suppers, and W.E.B. Du Bois

Author : David Levinson
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Sewing Circles, Dime Suppers, and W.E.B. Du Bois written by David Levinson and published by Berkshire Publishing Group LLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African American Foodways

Author : Anne Bower
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252076303
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book African American Foodways written by Anne Bower and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving beyond catfish and collard greens to the soul of African American cooking

Discovering Black Vermont

Author : Elise A. Guyette
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584659084
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Discovering Black Vermont written by Elise A. Guyette and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010-07-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for an African American community in rural Vermont

Asian Americans in New England

Author : Monica Chiu
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584657944
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Asian Americans in New England written by Monica Chiu and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first interdisciplinary contribution to studies about Asian Americans in New England

Black Bangor

Author : Maureen Elgersman Lee
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584654995
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Black Bangor written by Maureen Elgersman Lee and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid reconstruction of a once-vibrant African American community in northern New England.

African American Historic Burial Grounds and Gravesites of New England

Author : Glenn A. Knoblock
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476620423
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book African American Historic Burial Grounds and Gravesites of New England written by Glenn A. Knoblock and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence of the early history of African Americans in New England is found in the many old cemeteries and burial grounds in the region, often in hidden or largely forgotten locations. This unique work covers the burial sites of African Americans--both enslaved and free--in each of the New England states, and uncovers how they came to their final resting places. The lives of well known early African Americans are discussed, including Venture Smith and Elizabeth Freeman, as well as the lives of many ordinary individuals--military veterans, business men and women, common laborers and children. The author's examination of burial sites and grave markers reveals clues that help document the lives of black New Englanders from the 1640s to the early 1900s.

Maid as Muse

Author : Aife Murray
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584656746
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (567 download)

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Download or read book Maid as Muse written by Aife Murray and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startlingly original work establishing the impact of domestic servants on the life and writings of Emily Dickinson

African-American Gardens and Yards in the Rural South

Author : Richard Noble Westmacott
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870497629
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book African-American Gardens and Yards in the Rural South written by Richard Noble Westmacott and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slave family could assert some measure of independence and perhaps find some degree of spiritual refreshment. Since slavery, working the garden for the survival of the family has become less urgent, but now pleasure is taken from growing flowers and produce and in welcoming friends to the yard. Similarities in attitude between rural southern blacks and whites are reflected in the expression of such values as the importance of the agrarian lifestyle, self-reliance, and.

An Archaeology of Improvement in Rural Massachusetts

Author : Quentin Lewis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319221051
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book An Archaeology of Improvement in Rural Massachusetts written by Quentin Lewis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book probes the materiality of Improvement in early 19th century rural Massachusetts. Improvement was a metaphor for human intervention in the dramatic changes taking place to the English speaking world in the 18th and 19th centuries as part of a transition to industrial capitalism. The meaning of Improvement vacillated between ideas of economic profit and human betterment, but in practice, Improvement relied on a broad assemblage of material things and spaces for coherence and enaction. Utilizing archaeological data from the home of a wealthy farmer in rural Western Massachusetts, as well as an analysis of early Republican agricultural publications, this book shows how Improvement’s twin meanings of profit and betterment unfolded unevenly across early 19th century New England. The Improvement movement in Massachusetts emerged at a time of great social instability, and served to ameliorate growing tensions between urban and rural socioeconomic life through a rationalization of space. Alongside this rationalization, Improvement also served to reshape rural landscapes in keeping with the social and economic processes of a modernizing global capitalism. But the contradictions inherent in such processes spurred and buttressed wealth inequality, ecological distress, and social dislocation.

A Century in Captivity

Author : Denis R. Caron
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584655404
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book A Century in Captivity written by Denis R. Caron and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting reconstruction of an eighteenth-century slave's life and imprisonment

This Grand & Magnificent Place

Author : Christopher Johnson
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584654612
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book This Grand & Magnificent Place written by Christopher Johnson and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping environmental history of a quintessential American wilderness.

A Crisis of Community

Author : Mary Babson Fuhrer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469612879
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book A Crisis of Community written by Mary Babson Fuhrer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first decades of the American republic, Mary White, a shopkeeper's wife from rural Boylston, Massachusetts, kept a diary. Woven into its record of everyday events is a remarkable tale of conflict and transformation in small-town life. Sustained by its Puritan heritage, gentry leadership, and sense of common good, Boylston had survived the upheaval of revolution and the creation of the new nation. Then, in a single generation of wrenching change,the town and tis people descended into contentious struggle. Examining the tumultuous Jacksonian era at the intimate level of family and community, Mary Babson Fuhrer brings to life the troublesome creation of a new social, political, and economic order centered on individual striving and voluntary associations in an expansive nation. Blending family records and a rich trove of community archives, Fuhrer examines the "age of revolutions" through the lens of a rural community that was swept into the networks of an expanding and urbanizing New England region. This finely detailed history lends new depth to our understanding of a key transformative moment in American history.

Two Vermonts

Author : Paul M. Searls
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584655602
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Two Vermonts written by Paul M. Searls and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Vermonts establishes a little-known fact about Vermont: that the state's fascination with tourism as a savior for a suffering economy is more than a century old, and that this interest in tourism has always been dogged by controversy. Through this lens, the book is poised to take its place as the standard work on Vermont in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. Searls examines the origins of Vermont's contemporary identity and some reasons why that identity ("Who is a Vermonter?") is to this day so hotly contested. Searls divides nineteenth-century Vermonters into conceptually "uphill," or rural/parochial, and "downhill," or urban/cosmopolitan, elements. These two groups, he says, negotiated modernity in distinct and contrary ways. The dissonance between their opposing tactical approaches to progress and change belied the pastoral ideal that contemporary urban Americans had come to associate with the romantic notion of "Vermont." Downhill Vermonters, espousing a vision of a mutually reinforcing relationship between tradition and progress, unilaterally endeavored to foster the pastoral ideal as a means of stimulating economic development. The hostile uphill resistance to this strategy engendered intense social conflict over issues including education, religion, and prohibition in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The story of Vermont's vigorous nineteenth-century quest for a unified identity bears witness to the stirring and convoluted forging of today's "Vermont." Searls's engaging exploration of this period of Vermont's history advances our understanding of the political, economic, and cultural transformation of all of rural America as industrial capitalism and modernity revolutionized the United States between 1865 and 1910. By the late Progressive Era, Vermont's reputation was rooted in the national yearning to keep society civil, personal, and meaningful in a world growing more informal, bureaucratic, and difficult to navigate. The fundamental ideological differences among Vermont communities are indicative of how elusive and frustrating efforts to balance progress and tradition were in the context of effectively negotiating capitalist transformation in contemporary America.