A hammer in their hands : a documentary history of technology and the African-American experience /

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"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, protes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Lemelson Center
Otros Autores: Pursell, Carroll W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Temas:
Technology > United States > History.
Technology > Social aspects > United States > History.
African Americans > History.
Technologie > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Histoire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > General.
African Americans
Technology
Technology > Social aspects
Technologie.
Sociale aspecten.
United States
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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).

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