Black Portsmouth : three centuries of African-American heritage /
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| Author / Creator: | Sammons, Mark. |
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| Imprint: | Durham, N.H. : University of New Hampshire Press ; Hanover : Published by University Press of New England, c2004. |
| Description: | xi, 265 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Revisiting New England |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5204038 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- The Seaport
- Colonists
- Portsmouth and the Slave Trade
- Sale of Enslaved People
- White Fears, Regulation, and Legislation
- One Negro Man #200, One Ditto Woman #50: Location, Labor, Value
- Skilled Craftspeople
- Fortune and James: Invisibility
- Hannah, Pomp, Nanne, Violet, Scipio: Agricultural Work
- Quamino, Prince, Nero, a Negro Girl, Cato, Peter, John Jack, and Phyllis: The Role of Slavery among the White Colonial Elite
- Venus: Decoding Clues
- North Church People: Status and Religion
- Nero Brewster, Willie Clarkson, Jock Odiorne, Pharaoh Shores: Black Coronations, Internal Status. and Social Control
- The Unnamed, Unrecorded Dead: Health, Medicine, Death, Burial
- The Cotton and Hunking Families: Family, Women, Marriage
- Revolutionary Petitioners: Politics and Freedom
- Prince Whipple: Revolution and Freedom
- Free Black People in an Era of Slavery
- The Long-Range Impacts of the Slave System
- Early Americans
- "3 Very Old Negroes Almost Good for Nothing": The Plight of the Elderly in Freedom
- Prince, Cuffee, Dinah, and Rebecca Whipple: A Sample Family Living in Freedom
- Siras Bruce and Flora Stoodley Bruce: New Freedom, Limited Options
- Pomp and Candace Spring: A Glimpse of Home and Home Life
- Dinah GIbson: Making It on Her Own
- Richard Potter: Making an Itinerant Living in Entertainment
- Black Marines of Portsmouth: Life at Sea and at Home
- Esther Whipple Mullinaux: Kinship and Cluster Diffusion
- Abolition
- Portsmouth's Continued Participation in Slavery
- Frederick Douglass, Charles Lenox Remond, William Wells Brown: Black Abolitionist Orators and the Civil War Years in Portsmouth
- "Most of the Colored People of the City, Both Old and Young": Celebrating Emancipation
- Community
- People's Baptist Church: Spiritual Life, Religious Community
- Deacon Haywood Burton: Community Leader
- Gearge M. King, Ralph Reed, Albert Auylor: Social Clubs and Political Action
- The Klan in Portsmouth
- Louis George Gregory and Louisa Matthews Gregory: Spiritual Leaders for Racial Unity
- Elizabeth Virgil: Quiet Pioneer, Witness to a Changing World
- Owen Finnigan Cooper, Eugene Reid, John Ramsay, Emerson Reed, Doris Moore, Anna Jones: World War II and the Patriotic Service
- Rosary Broxay Cooper: Migration, Career Options, Patriotic Service
- Civil Rights
- Lost Boundaries, Broken Barriers
- Thomas CObbs: Making a Living, Making a Difference
- Legislating Destruction: Government Policy and the Black Experience
- Working Together, Seeking Understanding: The Seacoast Council on Race and Religion
- Living with Diversity
- Coffins Under the Street: An Afterword
- Appendix: Places Associated with Narratives in This Book
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
