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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820146303321

Autore

Fortune Timothy Thomas <1856-1928, >

Titolo

After war times : an African American childhood in reconstruction-era Florida / / T. Thomas Fortune ; edited by Daniel R. Weinfeld ; introduction by Dawn J. Herd-Clark ; afterword by Tameka Bradley Hobbs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University Alabama Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8173-8767-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (145 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/073075993

Soggetti

African Americans - Florida - Jackson County

African Americans - Florida - Jackson County - Social conditions - 19th century

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - Florida - Jackson County

Jackson County (Fla.) race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Dawn J. Herd-Clark; Editor's Note; After War Times; Afterword - Tameka Bradley Hobbs; Appendix: Bartow Black; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

T. Thomas Fortune was a leading African American publisher, editor, and journalist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who was born a slave in antebellum Florida lived through emancipation, and rose to become a literary lion of his generation. In T. Thomas Fortune''s "After War Times," Daniel R. Weinfeld brings together a series of twenty-three autobiographical articles Fortune wrote about his formative childhood during Reconstruction and subsequent move to Washington, DC. By 1890 Fortune had founded a predecessor organization to the National Association for the Advancement o