Crafting Lives : African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900 /
From the colonial period onward, Black artisans in southern cities - thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors, and others - played vital roles in their communities. Yet only a very few Black c...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Setting : New Bern from the Colonial Period to 1900
- The Fruits of Honest Industry : Black Artisans in New Bern's "Golden Age," 1770-1830
- Hundreds of Fine Artisans : Leaving and Staying, 1830-1861
- Worthy to Be Free, Worthy to Be Respected : Civil War, Union Occupation, and Presidential Reconstruction, 1862-1866
- We Can and Will Do More : Artisans and Citizens, 1867-1900.