A mind to stay : White plantation, Black homeland /

A Mind to Stay is a unique and extraordinary historical narrative of generations of a Black family with roots in slavery and in the South. This family won their freedom with emancipation but, instead of fleeing the poverty and oppression of the White plantation, decided to stay on the homeland of th...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Nathans, Sydney (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017]
Sujets:
Freed persons > Alabama > Hale County.
Rural African Americans > Alabama > Hale County > History.
African Americans > Land tenure > Alabama > Hale County.
Land tenure > Alabama > Hale County.
Plantation owners > Alabama > Hale County.
Personnes affranchies > Alabama > Hale.
Noirs américains > Terres > Alabama > Hale.
Propriétaires de plantations > Alabama > Hale.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY / African American
African Americans > Land tenure.
Freed persons.
Land tenure.
Plantation owners.
Rural African Americans.
Alabama > Hale County.
History.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Prologue: Unexpected
  • Part one. Proving ground: Spared
  • "Emigrants"
  • "So detested a place"
  • Held back
  • Reversals
  • Part two. A foothold in freedom:
  • Exile's return
  • "Against all comers"
  • "If they can get the land"
  • Part three. Beyond a living: "Hallelujah times"
  • "A game rooster"
  • Sanctuaries
  • Part four. Heir land: "That thirties wreck"
  • New foundations
  • "unless it's a must"
  • Epilogue: "A heavy load to lift."

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