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This work explores the dynamic issues of race and religion within the Cherokee Nation and to look at the role of secret societies in shaping these forces during the nineteenth century. ... Read more

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This study uses an abundance of primary sources to restore African American female participants in the Civil War to history by documenting their presence, contributions and experience.Free and enslaved African American women took part in this process in a variety of ways, including black female charity and benevolence. These women were spies, soldiers, scouts, nurses, cooks, seamstresses, laundresses, recruiters, relief workers, organizers, teachers, activists and survivors.They carried the honor of the race on their shoulders, insisting on their right to be treated as "ladies" and knowing that their conduct was a direct reflection on the African American community as a whole.
For too long, black women have been rendered invisible in traditional Civil War history and marginal in African American chronicles.This book addresses this lack by reclaiming and resurrecting the role of African American females, individually and collectively, during the Civil War.It brings their contributions, in the wordsof a Civil War participant, Susie King Taylor, "in history before the people."

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Imagine My Suprise
At the time I purchased this book I really was excited thinking that for once someone actually published a book that specifically talked about the lives and conditions of African based American women and children during the Civil War.As Holly Near would say, "imagine my surprise" and I am not talking about pirated women on a ship.I am a researcher desperately looking for specifics and I thought this book would be crucial to my research so I purchased it.

This book has a lot of history that you should have learned in high school about the civil war in general camouflaged with information from the US Sanitary Commission you may not have been able to come across in high school.

Based upon the preface, this book was supposed to focus on a text of history about black women's experiences during the civil war.In my honest opinion it is written for general history wanna-be buffs, and unconscious civil waralmost scholars who do not know about the US Colored Troops or just haven't thought much about them, or only want limited information or knowledge.

I can not stress the importance of feminist, womanist and historical researchers not being able to call African, African-based American, and Women of Color and Culture's by their actual names out in historical text and not redundantly keep printing the same old history that a lot of us already know.If this does not seem to be an issue, then ask the author why she in fact is not able to give much credence to their real names.Can someone supply a muster roll of the women and children "contrabands and refugee's" who supposingly caused a lot of undocumented racket in the camps? Forbes writes in the preface, if women are the focus, the perspective belongs to white women," of which entire book mirrors.

Recommendation: before you purchase this book, request it through the Interlibrary loan system through your public or university library and save yourself some serious money. With the money you save, give to a charitable cause. ... Read more

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This case study examines how low-income residents, community leaders, the Nation of Islam, and the police joined forces to close down an open air drug market. The research shows how a previously stable black community became severely destabilized and documents the efforts of community members to mobilize their neighbors around home ownership, tenant empowerment and jobs.
Adopting a holistic perspective, the author examines tensions between opportunities and constraints dictating the aspirations of individuals, the historical factors influencing the course of events in their community, and the agenda of various government and private agencies.This three-year ethnographic study observed the community's rejuvenation and the drastic reduction in drug-related crimes, antagonism between the police and the Nation of Islam, and the demise of the HUD funded tenants' home ownership initiative.
(Ph.D. dissertation, George Washington University, 1996; revised with new preface, introduction, bibliography, and index) ... Read more

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This classic study explores the role of merchant seamen in precipitating the American revolution.It analyzes the participation of seamen in impressment riots, the Stamp Act Riot, the Battle of Golden Hill, and other incidents. The book describes these events and explores the social world of the seamen, offering explanations for their actions.Focusing on the culture, politics, and experiences of early American seamen, this legendary study played an important role in the development of histories of the common people and has inspired generations of social and early American historians.Lemisch's later related article, "Jack Tar in the Streets," was named one of the ten most important articles ever published in the prestigious William and Mary Quarterly. Long unavailable, this edition includes an index and an appreciative foreword by Marcus Rediker, author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750
(Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1962) ... Read more

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This book offers a comprehensive history of the African American church in a community which played a crucial role in the civil rights movement. While the church in Birmingham was indeed a spiritual community, it was also the central institution in the African American community at large, providing leadership as well as economic, political, and social functions in a segregated racist society.
This historical analysis begins in the period of slavery with the development of a particularly African American version of Christianity from the merging of African and white evangelical religions. As African Americans moved to Birmingham from the black belt of Alabama, they formed churches which were spiritual communities where African Americans sought hope, security, moral discipline, and self-esteem in the face of racism and segregation. In addition, the study illustrates how churches established institutions that met educational, benevolent, and economic needs. The study concludes with a look at the leadership provided by churchmen in the civil rights movement, who brought Martin Luther King, Jr. to the city for massive civil rights demonstrations.
(Ph.D. dissertation, University of Alabama,1995; revised with new preface, foreword, introduction, afterword) ... Read more

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This book is great if you really want to learn. No fluff! I recommend it.

review of "A Shelter in the Storm"
I had the opportunity to study under Dr. Fallin at the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, AL.The material covered in his book is highly informative and accurate.The details that Dr. Fallin covered areextensive and the book paints a highly accurate description of the role ofblack churches in their struggle to obtain true independance in the South. ... Read more

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From the colonial period through the early nineteenth century, Father Thomas J. Murphy writes a compelling chronology and in depth analysis of Jesuit slaveholding in the state of Maryland. ... Read more

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This work describes the journalism careers of four black women within the context of the period in which they lived and worked. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Church Terrell, Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Amy Jacques Garvey were among a group of approximately twenty black women journalists who wrote for newspapers, magazines and other media during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. ... Read more

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Excellent
I came across this book while doing research.It is an excellent and thorough assessment of the contribution made by African American women in the history of journalism that has long neglected this population.I would encourage anyone who is interested in historical journalism to read this book. ... Read more

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Many 19th and 20th century historians have argued that Northern slavery was mild and that master/slave relations were relatively harmonious. Yet, Northern slavery, like Southern, was characterized by the conflict between the masters' desire to control their slaves and the slaves' resistance to this domination. For a variety of political, social, and intellectual reasons, 19th and 20th century historians ignored this inherent conflict in discussions of Northern slavery. Fitts' research focuses on how and why historians sanitized the history of slavery in Narragansett, Rhode Island, and then shows the inadequacy of these interpretations by examining several of the planters' and slaves' conflicting strategies of control and resistance.
Topics include how planters used physical punishment, legislation, and the threat of sale in an attempt to control their slaves, and how slaves resisted through violence, running away, and non-violent crime. Fitts also examines the plantation landscape as a site of symbolic contestation and includes a chapter on slave names.
(Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, 1995; revised with new preface) ... Read more

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This book presents background information on the beliefs, customs, traditions and cosmologies of several of Africa's foremost peoples, relates these findings to each of Morrison's seven novels by highlighting the connections between the African root and the African-American product, and elucidates how this connection helps to understand and to clarify many of Morrison's allusions to the culture out of which she writes. It presents a new way of reading Morrison's work that has been previously overlooked, and moves beyond just African-American culture, delving into Africa and its people. ... Read more

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Black slave ownership is a neglected area in the annals of American history. This work illustrates and traces the pattern that black slave ownership took in New York City, from its documented inception in 1661 to its demise after 1830. In New York City the phenomena of black slave ownership may be understood in the classic sense as "benevolent" slave holdings as defined by Carter G. Woodson. The social and material culture histories included in this work provide a unique view of colonial New Amsterdam and New York City. ... Read more

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Bringing together material from disparate sources, including unpublished writings, this first-of-its-kind study presents selected essays by Charles H. Wesley, one of the leading African American intellectuals of the twentieth century and a pioneer in Black Studies scholarship. Because there are no scholarly treatments of the writings or philosophical ideas of Wesley, the study contextualizes his scholarly career and highlights its importance, offering the most important essays written by Wesley in the cognitive fields of Black History, Biography, Social and Political Theory, Black Studies, and African Diasporic History. The book includes a preface, biographical information, and an index. ... Read more

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This study examines how the influx of African Americans following the Civil War reshaped perceptions of public order in Evansville, Indiana. A race riot in Evansville in July 1903 reflected the challenges presented to culturally defined notions of public order by the increasing numbers of African Americans. Before the war, the Evansville elite and the Victorian middle class defined public order in relation to the German and Irish immigrants who were entering the city along with new transportation and industrial opportunities. The war scrambled the city's cultural order and introduced African Americans in numbers never before seen in Evansville. Inured by a decade or more of racist rhetoric and stereotypes, many in Evansville saw public order threatened by the newcomers. The civic and moral concern that previously focused on German saloons and beer halls now came to question the order of African Americans. As African Americans attempted to forge a place for themselves in Evansville society at the end of the nineteenth century, the political culture engaged in the exploitation of race anxiety. Thus, when a morally suspect African American man killed a respected white police officer, it touched off an attempted lynching and the deadly race riot. Occurring at a time when race relations were at a nadir in America, the Evansville riot prompted a debate over public order, race relations, and the proper use of civil authority to quell riots. This is the first detailed study of the Evansville riot. ... Read more

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Cogent, Brilliant, Provocative
This is history at its best.Butler's work discusses the emergent class and ethnic tensions in a industrial midwestern town and situates its history in the larger patterns of change across America. Butler's style and writing has a flare and a richness unique in historical accounts of this sort--I could not put the book down!Butler has style! ... Read more

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Something Better for Our Children examines the critical role blacks played in organizing the Chicago school reform in the 1960s, during the Civil Rights and Black Power eras. Although many people focus on the current Chicago school reform efforts, there must be a clear understanding of the roots of that effort which took place in the 1960s, and this title provides just that. ... Read more

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This study analyzes legislation governing black life in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The years from 1664 to 1712 witnessed the formative era of slavery in the middle colonies, and by the beginning of the 18th century, specific laws governing African Americans were passed.The long range effects of the Insurrection of 1712 (which took the lives of nine whites and critically wounded five others) and the "Negro Conspiracy of 1741" produced extensive slave codes in New York and New Jersey. Pennsylvania took the more subtle approach of high tariffs, starting a tariff war against slavery.
Free blacks suffered under the harsh slave codes, as laws which restricted the movement of slaves also restricted the movement of free African Americans. Slaves were considered property protected by law, but free blacks were denied even this minor protection. Fear of insurrection led New York City, Albany, and Philadelphia to pass restrictive legislation. The greatest obstacle to freeing slaves was legislation requiring manumission bonds.As a result of a diversified economy, African Americans performed virtually every type of labor in the frontier communities of the middle colonies, and developed more skills than their southern counterparts. Eventually, the influx of whitesprovided cheap day labor that reduced dependency upon slave labor.
(Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1969; revised with new preface and foreword) ... Read more