In search of the promised land : a slave family in the Old South /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009 (Autor), Schweninger, Loren (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Colección:New narratives in American history.
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
Thomas.
Rapier.
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.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
REFERENCE > Genealogy & Heraldry.
African American families
African Americans
Families
Race relations
Slavery
Enslaved persons
Slavery > Tennessee.
Sklaverei
Familie
United States - General.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
Nashville (Tenn.) > Biography.
Nashville (Tenn.) > Race relations.
Southern States
Tennessee > Nashville
USA
Schwärze
collective biographies.
Biographies
Case studies
Biographies.
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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