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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808155103321

Autore

Engs Robert Francis

Titolo

Freedom's first generation : Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890 / / Robert Francis Engs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-8232-4788-0

Edizione

[1st Fordham University Press ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (230 p.)

Collana

Reconstructing America (Series), , 1523-4606 ; ; no. 8

Disciplina

975.5/41200496/073

Soggetti

African Americans - Virginia - Hampton - History - 19th century

Hampton (Va.) History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [160]-184) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page ""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Foreword to the Fordham University Press Edition""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: In Search of Freedom ""; ""Chapter 1: Hampton on the Eve of War""; ""Chapter 2: Surviving Freedom: The Contraband and the Union Army, 1861�65""; ""Chapter 3: Schoolhouse and Church: The Missionary Effort in Hampton 1861�65""; ""Chapter 4: Black Hampton�s New Majority""; ""Part II: Reconstruction: Freedom Deferred""; ""Chapter 5: The Chaos of Peace""; ""Chapter 6: The Freedmen�s Bureau and Johnsonian Reconstruction, 1865�66""

""Chapter 7: The Emasculated Bureau: Black Hampton and the Freedmen�s Bureau, 1867�68""""Insert ""; ""Part III: Freedom's Fleeting Triumph""; ""Chapter 8: Black Hampton and Armstrong�s Institute""; ""Chapter 9: Black Hampton: A Propertied Community""; ""Chapter 10: Black Hampton: A Social and Political Community""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliographic Essay""; ""Index""