In Search of the Promised Land : a Slave Family in the Old South.

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Based on family letters and other first-hand evidence, this remarkable piece of detective work follows a remarkable Black family as its members walk the boundary between slave and free, traveling across the country in search of a ""promised land"" where African Americans would be...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Franklin, John Hope
Otros Autores: Schweninger, Loren
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2005.
Colección:New Narratives in American History Ser.
Temas:
Thomas, Sally, > 1787-1850.
Thomas, Sally, > 1787-1850 > Family.
Thomas family.
Rapier family.
Thomas (Famille)
Rapier (Famille)
Rapier family
Thomas family
Thomas, Sally, > 1787-1850
Enslaved persons > Tennessee > Nashville > Biography.
African Americans > Tennessee > Nashville > Biography.
African American families > Southern States > Case studies.
Slavery > Southern States > Case studies.
Noirs américains > Tennessee > Nashville > Biographies.
Familles noires américaines > États-Unis (Sud) > Études de cas.
African American families
African Americans
Families
Race relations
Slavery
Enslaved persons
Nashville (Tenn.) > Biography.
Nashville (Tenn.) > Race relations.
Southern States
Tennessee > Nashville
Biographies
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; The Descendants of Sally Thomas; PROLOGUE; One: SALLY THOMAS: A LIFE IN BONDAGE; Virtual Freedom; Sally's Children; Sally's Son James; Sally's Grandchildren: The Rapier Boys; Two: FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM; The Domestic Slave Trade; James Thomas: The Boyhood Years; Barbershop; Three: 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; Four: IN SEARCH OF CANAAN; Bound for Nicaragua; The Dilemma of John Rapier Sr.
  • The Minnesota TerritoryCanada West and James Thomas Rapier; Five: THE MIDWEST, HAITI, AND JAMAICA; Into "Bleeding Kansas"; Steamboating on the Mississippi; John Rapier Jr. in the Caribbean; Six: THIS MIGHTY SCOURGE OF WAR; James Thomas in St. Louis; John Rapier Jr.'s Continuing Odyssey; The War's End; EPILOGUE; AFTERWORD: THROUGH THE PRISM OF A BLACK FAMILY; ABOUT THE SOURCES; APPENDIX 1 PETITIONS OF EPHRAIM FOSTER AND JAMES THOMAS TO THE DAVIDSON COUNTY COURT; APPENDIX 2 JOHN RAPIER SR. TO RICHARD RAPIER, APRIL 8, 1845; APPENDIX 3 JOHN RAPIER JR. TO JAMES THOMAS, JULY 28, 1861
  • Selected Bibliography on SlaveryIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; V; W

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