Behind the scenes, or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House [[electronic resource] /] / by Elizabeth Keckly |
Autore | Keckley Elizabeth <ca. 1818-1907.> |
Edizione | [DocSouth Books ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, : distributed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (165 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.7092 |
Soggetto topico |
African American women
Enslaved women - United States Dressmakers - United States Enslaved persons - United States |
ISBN |
979-88-908432-9-6
979-88-908433-0-2 1-4696-0290-3 0-8078-6964-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""About This Edition""; ""Summary""; ""CONTENTS.""; ""PREFACE.""; ""BEHIND THE SCENES.""; ""WHERE I WAS BORN.""; ""GIRLHOOD AND ITS SORROWS.""; ""HOW I GAINED MY FREEDOM.""; ""In the Family of Senator Jefferson Davis.""; ""MY INTRODUCTION TO MRS. LINCOLN.""; ""WILLIE LINCOLN'S DEATH-BED.""; ""WASHINGTON IN 1862-3.""; ""CANDID OPINIONS.""; ""BEHIND THE SCENES.""; ""THE SECOND INAUGURATION.""; ""THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.""; ""MRS. LINCOLN LEAVES THE WHITE HOUSE.""; ""THE ORIGIN OF THE RIVALRY BETWEEN MR. DOUGLAS AND MR. LINCOLN.""; ""OLD FRIENDS.""
""THE SECRET HISTORY OF MRS. LINCOLN'S WARDROBE IN NEW YORK.""""APPENDIX.""; ""LETTERS FROM MRS. LINCOLN TO MRS. KECKLEY."" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781451603321 |
Keckley Elizabeth <ca. 1818-1907.> | ||
Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library, : distributed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Press, 2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Mrs. Dred Scott [[electronic resource] ] : a life on slavery's frontier / / Lea VanderVelde |
Autore | VanderVelde Lea |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (497 p.) |
Disciplina | 973.7115092 |
Soggetto topico |
Enslaved women - United States
Enslaved persons - United States |
ISBN |
0-19-771476-5
0-19-988785-3 1-281-98709-3 9786611987091 0-19-971064-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Wife of a celebrity -- 1835 : arriving on the frontier -- Settling in -- Entertaining guests at the Indian Agency -- Late summer harvest -- Wintering over at St. Peter's Agency -- Winters deep -- 1836 : spring and the change of the guard -- Celestial explorers -- Call of the wood as a prelude to treaty -- 1837 : treaty made before her eyes -- Marriage : together alone -- Traveling the length of the river -- New baby in a new land -- Deteriorating community -- Battles and baptisms -- Taliaferro's last stand -- Leaving Minnesota and its new tribunals -- While the doctor was away : St. Louis, 1840-43 -- House of Chouteau -- Black social life of St. Louis -- Doctor returns -- 1843 Interlude : Jefferson barracks between wars of national expansion -- Dred with the army of observation and Harriet with the children in St. Louis -- Courthouse and the jail -- Other matters at the courthouse -- Filing suit again -- 1849 : trial by pestilence, trial by fire -- Declared free -- Missouri changes its course -- Before the high court -- Aftermath and epilogue. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782898403321 |
VanderVelde Lea | ||
Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The showman and the slave [[electronic resource] ] : race, death, and memory in Barnum's America / / Benjamin Reiss |
Autore | Reiss Benjamin |
Edizione | [1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
Disciplina | 306/.0973/09034 |
Soggetto topico |
Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century
Enslaved women - United States Freak shows - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century White people - Race identity - United States African Americans in popular culture - History - 19th century Racism in popular culture - United States - History - 19th century Death in popular culture - United States - History - 19th century |
ISBN | 0-674-04265-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- AckrunvZedgments -- Introduction: The Dark Subject -- 1. DEATH AND DYING -- 1. Possession -- 2. The Celebrated Curiosity -- 3. Private Acts, Public Memories -- 4. Sacred and Profane -- 5. Culture Wars -- 6. Love, Automata, and India Rubber -- 7. Spectacle -- II. RESURRECTION -- 8. Authenticity and Commodity -- 9. Exposure and Mastery -- 10. Erasure -- III. LIFE -- 11. A Speculative Biography -- Note to the 2010 Printing -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781142303321 |
Reiss Benjamin | ||
Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The showman and the slave : race, death, and memory in Barnum's America / / Benjamin Reiss |
Autore | Reiss Benjamin |
Edizione | [1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
Disciplina | 306/.0973/09034 |
Soggetto topico |
Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century
Enslaved women - United States Freak shows - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century White people - Race identity - United States African Americans in popular culture - History - 19th century Racism in popular culture - United States - History - 19th century Death in popular culture - United States - History - 19th century |
ISBN | 0-674-04265-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- AckrunvZedgments -- Introduction: The Dark Subject -- 1. DEATH AND DYING -- 1. Possession -- 2. The Celebrated Curiosity -- 3. Private Acts, Public Memories -- 4. Sacred and Profane -- 5. Culture Wars -- 6. Love, Automata, and India Rubber -- 7. Spectacle -- II. RESURRECTION -- 8. Authenticity and Commodity -- 9. Exposure and Mastery -- 10. Erasure -- III. LIFE -- 11. A Speculative Biography -- Note to the 2010 Printing -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823904403321 |
Reiss Benjamin | ||
Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Speaking lives, authoring texts [[electronic resource] ] : three African American women's oral slave narratives / / edited by DoVeanna S. Fulton Minor and Reginald H. Pitts |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.3/62092 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
Fulton MinorDoVeanna S
JacksonMattie J LarisonCornelius Wilson <1837-1910.> PicquetLouisa PittsReginald H |
Soggetto topico |
Slavery - United States - History - 19th century
Enslaved women - United States |
ISBN |
1-4384-2966-5
1-4416-3889-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792448503321 |
Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The trials of Phillis Wheatley / / Henry Louis Gates, Jr |
Autore | Gates Henry Louis, Jr. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : BasicCivitas Books, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina |
811/.1
B |
Soggetto topico |
African American poets
Poets, American - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Enslaved women - United States |
ISBN | 0-465-02729-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248095603316 |
Gates Henry Louis, Jr. | ||
New York, : BasicCivitas Books, c2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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