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1 online resource (x, 252 pages) |
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Crosscurrents in African American history ; volume 5 |
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Garland reference library of social sciences ; volume 1443 |
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Crosscurrents in African American history ; volume 5.
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Garland reference library of social science ; volume 1443.
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| Contents |
The transatlantic slave trade to Virginia in comparative historical perspective, 1698-1778 / Douglas B. Chambers -- sustaining the bonds of kinship in Tans-Appalachian migration, 1790-1811 / Gail S. Terry -- Slave hiring and slave family and friendship ties in rural nineteenth-century Virginia / John J. Zaborney -- The Gilliams' dilemma / Philip J. Schwarz -- richmond's place in the African American diaspora / Gregg Kimball -- African American women and the United States military in Civil War Virginia / Michelle A. Krowl -- African American churches, fusion politics in Virginia, and the Republican gubernatorial campaign in 1889 / Harold S. Forsythe -- Garveyism and contested political terrain in 1920s Virginia / Barbara Bair |
| Summary |
The essays in this collection offer new evidence and new conclusions on topics in the history of African Americans in Virginia such as the demography of early slave imports, the means used to regulate slave labor, the situation of female hired slaves in the backcountry, African American women in the Civil War era, and the Garveyite grassroots organizations of the 1920s |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Virginia -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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African Americans
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Geschichte
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Kultur
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Virginia
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Virginia
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Schwärze
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Saillant, John
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| ISBN |
9781135626501 |
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1135626502 |
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1299872514 |
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9781299872516 |
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