Black Settlement in Xenia, Ohio, 1850-1880
Author : Thomas Lawrence King
Publisher :
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 48,33 MB
Release : 1983
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Lawrence King
Publisher :
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 48,33 MB
Release : 1983
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : David Meyers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1439668957
In the years leading up to the Civil War, Ohio had more African American settlements than any other state. Owing to a common border with several slave states, it became a destination for people of color seeking to separate themselves from slavery. Despite these communities having populations that sometimes numbered in the hundreds, little is known about most of them, and by the beginning of the twentieth century, nearly all had lost their ethnic identities as the original settlers died off and their descendants moved away. Save for scattered cemeteries and an occasional house or church, they have all but been erased from Ohio's landscape. Father-daughter coauthors David Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker piece together the stories of more than forty of these black settlements.
Author : Susan Curtis
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Why was a nation, so fascinated with firsts, able to forget these black actors and this production so quickly? It is this question that Susan Curtis addresses in The First Black Actors on the Great White Way. Set against the backdrop of transforming theater conventions in the early 1900s and the war in 1917, this important study relates the stories of the actors, stage artists, critics, and many others - black and white - involved in this groundbreaking production. Curtis explores in great depth both the progress in race relations that led to this production and the multifaceted reasons for its quick demise.
Author : R. Isabela Morales
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 2022-05-02
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0197531792
A poignant, multi-generational saga of a mixed-race family in the US West and South from the antebellum period through the rise of Jim Crow. When Samuel Townsend died at his home in Madison County, Alabama, in November 1856, the fifty-two-year-old white planter left behind hundreds of slaves, thousands of acres of rich cotton land, and a net worth of approximately $200,000. In life, Samuel had done little to distinguish himself from other members of the South's elite slaveholding class. But he made a name for himself in death by leaving almost the entirety of his fortune to his five sons, four daughters, and two nieces: all of them his slaves. In this deeply researched, movingly narrated portrait of the extended Townsend family, R. Isabela Morales reconstructs the migration of this mixed-race family across the American West and South over the second half of the nineteenth century. Searching for communities where they could exercise their newfound freedom and wealth to the fullest, members of the family homesteaded and attended college in Ohio and Kansas; fought for the Union Army in Mississippi; mined for silver in the Colorado Rockies; and, in the case of one son, returned to Alabama to purchase part of the old plantation where he had once been held as a slave. In Morales's telling, the Townsends' story maps a new landscape of opportunity and oppression, where the meanings of race and freedom--as well as opportunities for social and economic mobility--were dictated by highly local circumstances. During the turbulent period between the Civil War and the rise of Jim Crow at the turn of the twentieth century, the Townsends carved out spaces where they were able to benefit from their money and mixed-race ancestry, pass down generational wealth, and realize some of their happy dreams of liberty.
Author : Aaron L. Day
Publisher : Infinity Pub
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 37,64 MB
Release : 2012-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780741472946
The history and heritage of African Americans in Xenia, Ohio goes back many years. It is outlined here as an opportunity to document and preserve this history for future generations.
Author : Paul J. Lammermeier
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 197?
Category : African American families
ISBN :
Author : Ernestine Garrett Lucas
Publisher :
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 1995
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
The Lucas family was from Springfield, Ohio, and the Garretts from Richmond, Indiana.
Author : Clinton County Genealogical Society (Ohio)
Publisher :
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2003
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : Charles Harris Wesley
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 1962
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Paul Nitchman
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780935057850