Guide to African American Manuscripts in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society
Author: Virginia Historical Society
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 205
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Virginia Historical Society
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 205
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Virginia Historical Society
Publisher: Virginia Histotical Society
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780945015130
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kelley Fanto Deetz
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2017-11-17
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0813174740
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For decades, smiling images of "Aunt Jemima" and other historical and fictional black cooks could be found on various food products and in advertising. Although these images were sanitized and romanticized in American popular culture, they represented the untold stories of enslaved men and women who had a significant impact on the nation's culinary and hospitality traditions, even as they were forced to prepare food for their oppressors. Kelley Fanto Deetz draws upon archaeological evidence, cookbooks, plantation records, and folklore to present a nuanced study of the lives of enslaved plantation cooks from colonial times through emancipation and beyond. She reveals how these men and women were literally "bound to the fire" as they lived and worked in the sweltering and often fetid conditions of plantation house kitchens. These highly skilled cooks drew upon knowledge and ingredients brought with them from their African homelands to create complex, labor-intensive dishes. However, their white owners overwhelmingly received the credit for their creations. Deetz restores these forgotten figures to their rightful place in American and Southern history by uncovering their rich and intricate stories and celebrating their living legacy with the recipes that they created and passed down to future generations.
Author: Peter Wallenstein
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780813923154
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What did the Civil War mean to Virginia-and what did Virginia mean to the Civil War?
Author: Michael Plunkett
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the relevant holdings of 23 different libraries in the commonwealth.
Author: Cassandra L. Newby-Alexander, PhD
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 1
ISBN-13: 1625859635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A part of the Underground Railroad, read here of enslaved people and their stories of using Virginia's waterways to achieve freedom. Enslaved Virginians sought freedom from the time they were first brought to the Jamestown colony in 1619. Acts of self-emancipation were aided by Virginia's waterways, which became part of the network of the Underground Railroad in the years before the Civil War. Watermen willing to help escaped slaves made eighteenth-century Norfolk a haven for freedom seekers. Famous nineteenth-century escapees like Shadrack Minkins and Henry Box Brown were aided by the Underground Railroad. Enslaved men like Henry Lewey, known as Bluebeard, aided freedom seekers as conductors, and black and white sympathizers acted as station masters. Historian Cassandra Newby-Alexander narrates the ways that enslaved people used Virginia's waterways to achieve humanity's dream of freedom.
Author: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 968
ISBN-13: 9780674002760
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Compiles information and interpretations on the past 500 years of African American history, containing essays on historical research aids, bibliographies, resources for womens' issues, and an accompanying CD-ROM providing bibliographical entries.
Author: Charles F. Bryan, Jr.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2002-05-07
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0684863669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this historical treasure, now restored to posterity, text and drawings by a Union cartographer record the daily life of Civil war soldiers, the firsthand observation of officers, and the battles he witnessed from Yorkville to Bull Run. 85 full-color illustrations.
Author: David T. Thackery
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780916489908
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although the search for African American ancestry prior to the Civil War is challenging, the difficulties are not always insurmountable. Finding Your African American Ancestors takes you through your ancestors' transition from slavery to freedom, and helps you find them using the federal census, plantation records, and other helpful sources. The book also considers ways to locate runaway slave advertisements, to identify an ancestor's military regiment, and to access the valuable information from The Freedman's Savings and Trust records.