In search of the promised land : a slave family in the Old South /
Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation, to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. This book offers a portrait of her extended family and of the life of slaves before the Civil War. Based on family letters as wel...
| Основен автор: | Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009. |
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| Други автори: | Schweninger, Loren. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Серия: |
New narratives in American history.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=146946 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
In search of the promised land. |
Съдържание:
- Sally Thomas : a life in bondage. Virtual freedom ; Sally's children ; Sally's son James ; Sally's grandchildren: the Rapier boys
- From slavery to freedom. The domestic slave trade ; James Thomas: the boyhood years ; Barbershop
- Travels in the north and west. Nashville's Black community ; The changing attitudes of whites ; A fugitive slave in the north ; The California gold rush ; The epidemic's shadow
- In search of Canaan. Bound for Nicaragua ; The dilemma of John Rapier Sr. ; The Minnesota territory ; Canada West and James Thomas Rapier
- The Midwest, Haiti, and Jamaica. Into "Bleeding Kansas" ; Steamboating on the Mississippi ; John Rapier Jr. in the Caribbean
- This mighty scourge of war. James Thomas in St. Louis ; John Rapier Jr.'s continuing odyssey ; The war's end
- Afterword : through the prism of a black family
- Appendix 1. Petitions of Ephraim Foster and James Thomas to the Davidson County Court
- John Rapier Sr. to Richard Rapier, April 8, 1845
- Appendix 3. John Rapier Jr. to James Thomas, July 28, 1861.