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Author Curtis, Nancy C., author.

Title Black heritage sites : an African American odyssey and finder's guide / Nancy C. Curtis
Published Chicago : American Library Association, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 677 pages) : illustrations
Contents Part one-South: Free African American before the Civil War -- Slave housing in the South -- Black American and religion in the South -- Growth of African American commercial enterprise in the South -- Schools and education for African Americans in the South -- African American participation in battle -- Alabama -- Arkansas -- District of Columbia -- Florida -- Georgia -- Kentucky -- Louisiana -- Maryland -- Mississippi -- North Carolina -- South Carolina -- Tennessee -- Virginia -- West Virginia -- Part two-Northeast: Slavery and segregation in the Northeast -- Opposition to slavery -- Segregation and achievement -- Connecticut -- Delaware -- Maine -- Massachusetts -- New Hampshire -- New Jersey -- New York -- Pennsylvania -- Rhode Island -- Vermont -- Part three-Midwest: Northwest ordinance and slavery -- Prohibition against importing slaves into the United States -- Fugitive slave laws -- Missouri Compromise -- Kansas-Nebraska Act -- Equality in the Midwest -- Midwest achievers -- Illinois -- Indiana -- Iowa -- Kansas -- Michigan -- Special feature: Canada -- Minnesota -- Missouri -- Nebraska -- North Dakota -- Ohio -- South Dakota -- Wisconsin -- Part four-Southwest: Buffalo soldiers -- Black communities of Oklahoma -- Other Southwest sites -- Early homes in the Southwest -- Challenge of the Southwest -- Arizona -- New Mexico -- Oklahoma -- Texas -- Part five: West and the noncontiguous states: African Americans in the Western states -- Noncontiguous states: Hawaii and Alaska -- California -- Colorado -- Idaho -- Montana -- Nevada -- Oregon -- Utah -- Washington -- Wyoming -- Alaska -- Hawaii
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Historic sites -- United States -- Directories
African Americans -- History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African Americans
Historic sites
Sehenswürdigkeit
Kulturdenkmal
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
United States - General.
United States
Schwärze
USA
Genre/Form directories.
Directories
History
Directories.
Répertoires.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 95005788
ISBN 0585339678
9780585339672