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Author : Memphis (Tenn.)
Release : 1860
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Book Synopsis Digest of the Charters and Ordinances of the City of Memphis, from 1826 to 1860, Inclusive by : Memphis (Tenn.)
Download or read book Digest of the Charters and Ordinances of the City of Memphis, from 1826 to 1860, Inclusive written by Memphis (Tenn.). This book was released on 1860. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Public Library
Release : 1913
Genre : Charters
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Book Synopsis List of Works Relating to City Charters, Ordinances, and Collected Documents by : New York Public Library
Download or read book List of Works Relating to City Charters, Ordinances, and Collected Documents written by New York Public Library. This book was released on 1913. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Public Library
Release : 1912
Genre : Bibliography
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Book Synopsis Bulletin of the New York Public Library by : New York Public Library
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library. This book was released on 1912. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Author : Hannah Rosen
Release : 2009-06-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Terror in the Heart of Freedom by : Hannah Rosen
Download or read book Terror in the Heart of Freedom written by Hannah Rosen. This book was released on 2009-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery (coded as black) and full citizenship (coded as white as well as male). These traditional definitions of race were radically disrupted after emancipation, when citizenship was granted to all persons born in the United States and suffrage was extended to all men. Hannah Rosen persuasively argues that in this critical moment of Reconstruction, contests over the future meaning of race were often fought on the terrain of gender. Sexual violence--specifically, white-on-black rape--emerged as a critical arena in postemancipation struggles over African American citizenship. Analyzing the testimony of rape survivors, Rosen finds that white men often staged elaborate attacks meant to enact prior racial hierarchy. Through their testimony, black women defiantly rejected such hierarchy and claimed their new and equal rights. Rosen explains how heated debates over interracial marriage were also attempts by whites to undermine African American men's demands for suffrage and a voice in public affairs. By connecting histories of rape and discourses of "social equality" with struggles over citizenship, Rosen shows how gendered violence and gendered rhetorics of race together produced a climate of terror for black men and women seeking to exercise their new rights as citizens. Linking political events at the city, state, and regional levels, Rosen places gender and sexual violence at the heart of understanding the reconsolidation of race and racism in the postemancipation United States.
Author : S. Charles Bolton
Release : 2019
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Fugitivism by : S. Charles Bolton
Download or read book Fugitivism written by S. Charles Bolton. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the antebellum years, over 750,000 enslaved people were taken to the Lower Mississippi Valley, where two-thirds of them were sold in the slave markets of New Orleans, Natchez, and Memphis. Those who ended up in Louisiana found themselves in an environment of swamplands, sugar plantations, French-speaking creoles, and the exotic metropolis of New Orleans. Those sold to planters in the newly-opened Mississippi Delta cleared land and cultivated cotton for owners who had moved west to get rich as quickly as possible, driving this labor force to harsh extremes. Like enslaved people all over the South, those in the Lower Mississippi Valley left home at night for clandestine parties or religious meetings, sometimes "laying out" nearby for a few days or weeks. Some of them fled to New Orleans and other southern cities where they could find refuge in the subculture of slaves and free blacks living there, and a few attempted to live permanently free in the swamps and forests of the surrounding area. Fugitives also tried to returnto eastern slave states to rejoin families from whom they had been separated. Some sought freedom on the northern side of the Ohio River; othersfled to Mexico for the same purpose. Fugitivism provides a wealth of new information taken from advertisements, newspaper accounts, and court records. It explains how escapees made use of steamboat transportation, how urban runaways differed from their rural counterparts, how enslaved people were victimized by slave stealers, how conflicts between black fugitives and the white people who tried to capture them encouraged a culture of violence in the South, and how runaway slaves from the Lower Mississippi Valley influenced the abolitionist movement in the North. Readers will discover that along with an end to oppression, freedom-seeking slaves wanted the same opportunities afforded to most Americans.
