294 pages, including index, free shipping media mail. Black people have lived in Texas, though not continuously, for more than four hundred years longer than in any other section of the United States considerably longe than the dominant Anglo population of the state, as the Spanish ancestors of its Mexican Americans, and receded only b the forebears of its remaining American Indian citizens. View More...
The moving testimonies of five African-American women comprise this unflinching account of slavery in the pre-Civil War American South. Covering a wide range of narrative styles, the voices provide authentic recollections of hardship, frustration, and hope — from Mary Prince's groundbreaking account of a lone woman's tribulations and courage, the spiritual awakening of "Old Elizabeth," and Mattie Jackson's record of personal achievements, to the memoirs of Kate Drumgoold and Annie L. Burton.A compelling, authentic portrayal of women held as slaves in the antebellum South, these remarkable stor... View More...
Individual lives, viewed through the right lens, can reveal the essence of a time and place with startling clarity. In this innovative memoir, filmmaker Carroll Parrott Blue turns her lens on her mother's and her own lives as African American women in the segregated South before and during the Civil Rights era. This mother-daughter story foregrounds two strong women who fought institutionalized racism?one through community activism, the other through artistic creativity?even as the effects of racism and their differing responses to it frayed the very fabric of their relationship.293 p. &... View More...
First published in 1977, Black Genealogy remains a unique guide guide among standard genealogical references. Author Charles Blockson, a noted genealogist and african american historian, traced his own family roots back through the 18th century. Along his journey, he discovered obstacles and advantages that make searching for black family history a rewarding experience.
In The Accident of Color, Daniel Brook journeys to nineteenth-century New Orleans and Charleston and introduces us to cosmopolitan residents who elude the racial categories the rest of America takes for granted. Before the Civil War, these free, openly mixed-race urbanites enjoyed some rights of citizenship and the privileges of wealth and social status. But after Emancipation, as former slaves move to assert their rights, the black-white binary that rules the rest of the nation begins to intrude.
In Jim Crow Texas, black Regular Army units returning victoriously from Cuba and the Philippines collided head-on with local segregation and bigotry. As the soldiers' expectations of dignity and respect met with racial restrictions and indignities from civilian communities, a series of violent episodes erupted.Clearly written and impressively researched, Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas traces the relationship of the four black military regiments—the 24th and 25th Infantries and the 9th and 10th Cavalries—with white civilian communities in the period between the Spanish-American War and World ... View More...
One of the few memoirs written by a black woman who struggles to escape slavery then struggles to find her voice as a writer. Fascinating book.306 pages View More...
From an American Book Award-winning author comes a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection that ushers readers into a now-vanished "colored" world and extends and deepens our sense of African-American history, even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling.
In a coming-of-age story as enchantingly vivid and ribald as anything Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., recounts his childhood in the mill town of Piedmont, West Virginia, in the 1950s and 1960s and ushers readers into a gossip, of lye-and-mashed-potato "processes," and of slyly stubborn resistance to the indignities of segregation.A winner of the Chicago Tribune's Heartland Award and the Lillian Smith Prize, Colored People is a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection, a work that extends and deepens our sense of African American history even as it entrances us... View More...
A boy named Peter, born to a slave in Massachusetts in 1763, was sold nineteen months later to a childless white couple there. This book recounts the fascinating history of how the American Revolution came to Peter's small town, how he joined the revolutionary army at the age of twelve, and how he participated in the battles of Bunker Hill and Yorktown and witnessed the surrender at Saratoga.Joyce Lee Malcolm describes Peter's home life in rural New England, which became increasingly unhappy as he grew aware of racial differences and prejudices. She then relates how he and other blacks, slave ... View More...
In 1877, Henry O. Flipper became the first African-American graduate of West Point. 2nd LT Flipper was assigned to the 10th Cavalry--one of four all-black units (known as Buffalo Soldiers) sent to the western frontier. While serving at Fort Davis Texas Henry was accused of embezzlement. In1882 he received a court martial and dishonorable discharge. Although he had a success civilian life, he spent much of his time trying to reverse his discharge. He died in 1940 unsuccessful at clearing his name. In 1976, his military record was finally cleared to an honorable discharge. View More...
In Daughters of Men, author Rachel Vassel has compiled dozens of stunning photographs and compelling personal essays about African-American women and their fathers. Whether it's a father who mentors his daughter's artistic eye by taking her to cultural events or one who unwaveringly supports a risky career move, the fathers in this book each had his own unique and successful style of parenting. The first book to showcase the importance of the black father's impact on the accomplishments of his daughter, Daughters of Men provides an intimate look at black fatherhood and the many ways fathers ha... View More...
Because Texas emerged from the western frontier relatively late in the formation of the antebellum nation, it is frequently and incorrectly perceived as fundamentally western in its political and social orientation. In fact, most of the settlers of this area were emigrants from the South, and many of these people brought with them their slaves and all aspects of slavery as it had matured in their native states.In An Empire for Slavery, Randolph B. Campbell examines slavery in the antebellum South's newest state and reveals how significant slavery was to the history of Texas. The "peculiar inst... View More...
The laws that governed the institution of slavery in early Texas were enacted over a fifty-year period in which Texas moved through incarnations as a Spanish colony, a Mexican state, an independent republic, a part of the United States, and a Confederate state. This unusual legal heritage sets Texas apart from the other slave-holding states and provides a unique opportunity to examine how slave laws were enacted and upheld as political and legal structures changed. Combining seminal historical essays with excerpts from key legal documents from the slave period and tying them together with inte... View More...
This children's book is based on a true story about Jim Limber, a young African American boy who lived with Confederate President Jefferson Davis's family in the Confederacy capitol in Richmond, Virginia. Mary Boykin Chesnut wrote in her diary in 1864 about seeing Jim in the Davis home dressed in clothing belonging to the Davis's young son Joe. Other historical sources valid that the orphan child was part of the Davis family until Jefferson Davis was arrested at the end of the war. Interesting book, even though it is written for children. View More...
The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain. It describes Prince's sufferings as a slave in Bermuda, Turks Island and Antigua, and her eventual arrival in London with her brutal owner Mr. Wood in 1828. Prince escaped from him and sought assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society, where she dictated her remarkable story to Susanna Strickland (later Moodie). A moving and graphic document, The History drew attention to the continuation of slavery in the Caribbean, despite an 1807 Act of Parliament officially ending the slave trade. 114 Page... View More...
Focusing on Petersburg, Virginia, Professor Lebsock is able to demonstrate and explain how the status of women could change for the better in an antifeminist environment. She weaves the experiences of individual women together with general social trends, to show, for example, how women's lives were changing in response to the economy and the institutions of property ownership and slavery.
Born to former slaves on a Louisiana plantation in 1867, Madam C.J. Walker rose from poverty and indignity to become America's first black female millionaire, the head of a hugely successful beauty company, and a leading philanthropist in African American causes. Renowned author Alex Haley became fascinated by the story of this extraordinary heroine, and before his death in 1992, he embarked on the research and outline of a major novel based on her life. With The Black Rose, critically acclaimed writer Tananarive Due brings Haley's work to an inspiring completion.Blending documented history, v... View More...
As many African American researchers have discovered, they likely won't find anything good being said in a White newspaper about a Black person unless it is bad. And that's what makes African American newspapers so valuable. These newspapers provide the history and context of the times in which your ancestor lived by covering social events (marriages, deaths, visitors, parties) and other news that is of importance to the African American community. The author tells you how to find these newspapers (online and as hard copies) as well as research tips. View More...
this book is about how it felt to be a slave: to be owned by another person, as a car; to live a a piece of property; to be considered not human; to be a thing, determined by the person who owned you. All aspects of slavery are described by those who lived as slaves View More...
Book's introduction: "In 1867, a tiny unpretentious volume appeared in American bookstores...it was the groundbreaking work...in being the first extensive collection on Negro folklore." The book starts with a 42-page introduction giving some history on background on the songs. The book has words and music for 136 songs, which are separated by area: Southern Eastern Sea States, including South Carolina, Georgia and Sea Islands; Northern Seaboard Slave States, including Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina; Inland Slave States, including Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi River; Gulf... View More...
Negro soldiers who wanted to remain in the United States Army after the Civil War were organized into the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments. Their service in controlling hostile Indians on the Great Plains during the next twenty years was as invaluable as it was unrecognized.
Negro soldiers who wanted to remain in the United States Army after the Civil War were organized into the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry Regiments. Their service in controlling hostile Indians on the Great Plains during the next twenty years was as invaluable as it was unrecognized.
Wilma King sheds light on a long-overlooked aspect of slavery in the United States - the wretched lives of the millions of young people enslaved in the nineteenth-century South. A substantial body of scholarship examines the history of U.S. slavery, but it has not focused on these children and their place in enslaved families and the slave community. Wilma King argues that childhood was stolen from these youngsters - they were forced into the workplace at an early age, subjected to arbitrary plantation authority and punishment, and were separated from family. For this exhaustive study, King dr... View More...
