On the morning tide : African Americans, history and methodology in the historical ebb and flow of Hudson River society /

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Author / Creator:Williams-Myers, Albert James, 1939-
Imprint:Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2003.
Description:xx, 262 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4839671
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ISBN:0865437580
0865437599 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. The Hudson Valley
  • 1. A Methodological Approach to the Reconstruction of an African-American Presence in the Mid-Hudson River Valley
  • 2. Slavery, African Labor, and the Slave Trade in the Hudson River Valley in the Early Centuries of Capital Accumulation: Text and Documentation
  • 3. A Portrait of Eve Toward a Social History of Black Women in the Hudson River Valley
  • Pt. 2. Diary and Imagery: A Rising Tide of Historical Evidence
  • 4. An African Voice Among the River Folk of the Hudson River Valley. The Diary of an Exslave, 1827-1866
  • Pt. 3. If the River Could Talk: Oral Black History
  • 5. The African Voice in Ossining, New York: Henry Gourdine and His Life on the River
  • 6. The African Voice in Albany, New York: Harriette Bowie Lewis Van Vranken Remembers
  • Pt. 4. Writing New York History: The Problem of Selective Memory
  • 7. New York City, African Americans and Selective Memory: A Historiographical Assessment of a Black Presence Before 1877
  • 8. Chautauqua, New York, and the Use and Abuse of Selective Memory: Is There a Dark Side To the Lakeside Resort?
  • 9. "Victims' History:" Its Value and Use in a Race-Conscious Society; New York as a Case Study
  • Pt. 5. On the Evening Tide: Past, Present, Future: Imagery and Realism at the River's Mouth, New York City
  • 10. "Weep Not, Child": The Plight of African Americans in AnteBellum New York City
  • Pt. 6. The Historian in Transition: Fiction and History
  • 11. Possessed: On The Streets Of Old New York In Black And White (Fiction in the Making).