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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809265603321

Autore

Taylor Nikki Marie <1972->

Titolo

Frontiers of freedom : Cincinnati's Black community, 1802-1868 / / Nikki M. Taylor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8214-4169-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Ohio University Press series on law, society, and politics in the Midwest

Disciplina

305.896/073077178

Soggetti

African Americans - Ohio - Cincinnati - History - 19th century

African Americans - Ohio - Cincinnati - Social conditions - 19th century

African Americans - Civil rights - Ohio - Cincinnati - History - 19th century

Cincinnati (Ohio) Race relations

Cincinnati (Ohio) History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-300) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- contents -- illustrations -- tables -- acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A City of Promise -- 2 A City of Persecution The Emergence of a Community -- 3 A Place Called Freedom The 1829 Riot and Emigration -- 4 Emerging from Fire Rebirth and Renewal, 1829-1836 -- 5 Building Strength Within State and National Alliances, 1829-1841 -- 6 Standing Their Ground A Community's Maturation, 1841-1861 -- 7 Underground Activism Fugitive Slave Resistance, 1841-1861 -- 8 "Palladium of Their Liberty" Black Public Schools and the Road to -- 9 "Colored Citizen" -- 10 The Shadows -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- notes -- bibliography -- index.