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Title A hammer in their hands : a documentary history of technology and the African-American experience / edited by Carroll Pursell
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 397 pages) : illustrations
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. African medicine in the new world -- Cotton Mather on smallpox inoculation (1716) -- account of the method and success of inoculating the small-pox in Boston (1722) -- 2. New world skills -- Runaway slave advertisements -- profile of runaway slaves in Virginia and South Carolina from 1730 through 1787 / Lathan Algerna Windley -- Advertisement for a fugitive slave (1769) / Thomas Jefferson -- Letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, with his answer (1792) / Benjamin Banneker / Thomas Jefferson -- 3. persistence of craft -- Advertisements for runaway slaves in Virginia, 1801-1820 / Daniel Meaders -- Life and times of Frederick Douglass (1882) / Frederick Douglass -- fugitive blacksmith; or, events in the history of James W.C. Pennington -- Uncle Tom's cabin (1852) / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- ̂ journey in the seaboard slave states (1856) and a journey in the back country (1861) / Frederick Law Olmsted -- His promised land : the autobiography of John P. Parker, former slave and conductor on the Underground Railroad / John P. Parker -- Layout of Parker's Phoenix Foundry (1884) -- U.S. patent to John Percial Parker for a soil-pulverizer (1890) -- Tending a cotton gin (1853) -- 4. new industrial age -- Notes on North America, agricultural, economical, and social (1851) / James F.W. Johnston -- Scenes from Oak Lawn, Louisiana plantation (1864) -- Slave labor as reported in Nile's weekly register (1849) and DeBow's Southern and Western review (1851) -- history of the first locomotives in America (1874) / William H. Brown -- Advertisement in The liberator seeking colored inventors (1834) -- U.S. patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "improvement in sugar-works" (1843) -- ̂ U.S. patent to Norbert Rillieux for an "improvement in sugar-making" (1846) -- Confederate Patent Act (1861) -- 5. Finding a place in the industrial age -- Mechanism and art (1873)
Summary "A Hammer in Their Hands (the title comes from the famous song about John Henry, "the steel-driving man" who beat the steam drill) collects newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements for runaway slaves, letters, folklore, excerpts from biography and fiction, legal patents, protest pamphlets, and other primary sources to document the technological achievements of African-Americans."--Jacket
Analysis SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology
Notes "Published in cooperation with the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian Institution."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-386) and index
Notes English
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Subject Technology -- United States -- History
Technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
African Americans -- History.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- General.
African Americans
Technology
Technology -- Social aspects
Technologie.
Sociale aspecten.
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Pursell, Carroll W
Lemelson Center.
ISBN 0262162253
9780262162258
9780262281959
0262281953
9786612096945
6612096942
1423796578
9781423796572