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Lädt ... Israel on the Appomattox : a southern experiment in Black freedom from 1790s through the Civil War (Original 2004; 2004. Auflage)von Melvin Patrick Ely
Werk-InformationenIsrael on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War von Melvin Patrick Ely (2004)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. NA This is the story of a free black community organized by Richard Randolph's widow Judith according to the terms of his will. The book is very well researched and presents some startling facts. The author examination new court records and other primary sources and details daily life between free blacks and whites in Prince Edward County, Virginia. As a native Virginian I found this book fascinating. Highly recommend this book. This is a really wonderful microhistory of a small county in central Virginia where, in the early nineteenth century, a small group of freed slaves set up a community for themselves in a place they called Israel Hill. Ely does a great job of examining constructions of race and race relations in the antebellum south, challenging both our assumptions about the period and our complacency about race relations in our own time. Ely doesn't argue that slavery was anything less than a barbaric, horrific, shaming institution, but demonstrates the agency which African-Americans could have within the small space allowed them by the white community, and how both communities could recognise the humanity of the other (though the fact that whites were well aware that the people they kept as slaves were as human as they were makes the history of slavery ever more horrific and shaming to think about). The book plods a little towards the middle, but I think only because of the sheer amount of detail which Ely has gathered together to assist in his recreation of this fascinating community and its wider context. There is a lot in this book, but it's well worth the read. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEA New York Times Book Review and Atlantic Monthly Editors' ChoiceThomas Jefferson denied that whites and freed blacks could live together in harmony. His cousin, Richard Randolph, not only disagreed, but made it possible for ninety African Americans to prove Jefferson wrong. Israel on the Appomattox tells the story of these liberated blacks and the community they formed, called Israel Hill, in Prince Edward County, Virginia. There, ex-slaves established farms, navigated the Appomattox River, and became entrepreneurs. Free blacks and whites did business with one another, sued each other, worked side by side for equal wages, joined forces to found a Baptist congregation, moved west together, and occasionally settled down as man and wife. Slavery cast its grim shadow, even over the lives of the free, yet on Israel Hill we discover a moving story of hardship and hope that defies our expectations of the Old South. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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