Black heritage sites : an African American odyssey and finder's guide

Curtis, Nancy C. (Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0838906435 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780838906439 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 1565844327
ISBN: 9781565844322
Physical Description: print
viii, 677 p. : ill ; 29 cm.
Publisher: Chicago : American Library Association, 1996.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Part one-South: Free African American before the Civil War -- Slave housing in the South -- Black American and religion in the South -- Growth of African American commercial enterprise in the South -- Schools and education for African Americans in the South -- African American participation in battle -- Alabama -- Arkansas -- District of Columbia -- Florida -- Georgia -- Kentucky -- Louisiana -- Maryland -- Mississippi -- North Carolina -- South Carolina -- Tennessee -- Virginia -- West Virginia -- Part two-Northeast: Slavery and segregation in the Northeast -- Opposition to slavery -- Segregation and achievement -- Connecticut -- Delaware -- Maine -- Massachusetts -- New Hampshire -- New Jersey -- New York -- Pennsylvania -- Rhode Island -- Vermont -- Part three-Midwest: Northwest ordinance and slavery -- Prohibition against importing slaves into the United States -- Fugitive slave laws -- Missouri Compromise -- Kansas-Nebraska Act -- Equality in the Midwest -- Midwest achievers -- Illinois -- Indiana -- Iowa -- Kansas -- Michigan -- Special feature: Canada -- Minnesota -- Missouri -- Nebraska -- North Dakota -- Ohio -- South Dakota -- Wisconsin -- Part four-Southwest: Buffalo soldiers -- Black communities of Oklahoma -- Other Southwest sites -- Early homes in the Southwest -- Challenge of the Southwest -- Arizona -- New Mexico -- Oklahoma -- Texas -- Part five: West and the noncontiguous states: African Americans in the Western states -- Noncontiguous states: Hawaii and Alaska -- California -- Colorado -- Idaho -- Montana -- Nevada -- Oregon -- Utah -- Washington -- Wyoming -- Alaska -- Hawaii.

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