Black Boston

African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750-1860

George Levesque (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

558 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-8153-8557-8 (ISBN)

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Levesque’s richly detailed study fills a significant void in our understanding. Black culture Levesque argues more and less than separation and integration. Poised between an occasionally frequently indifferent white world and their own community, black Americans were, in effect, suspended between two cultures.

Between the Revolution and the Civil War, non-slave black Americans existed in the no-man’s land between slavery and freedom. The two generations defined by these two titanic struggles for national survival saw black Bostonians struggle to make real the quintessential values of individual freedom and equality promised by the Revolution. Levesque’s richly detailed study fills a significant void in our understanding of the formative years of black life in urban America. Black culture Levesque argues was both more and less than separation and integration. Poised between an occasionally benevolent, sometimes hostile, frequently indifferent white world and their own community, black Americans were, in effect, suspended between two cultures.

Levesque, George

List of Tables/Maps Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Social Composition 1. "They Cannot Thrive Among Us" 2. "Sustained Very Evidently by Means of Emigration Part II: The Color Line 3. "Is Boston Anti-Slavery?" 4. "Complexional Distinctions" 5. "The Cause of Equal School Privileges" 6. "That Separate Schools May Be Abolished" 7. "Privileges and Immunities of Citizens" Part III: Life in the Ghetto 8. "Colored Churches. Is There Any Necessity for Their Existence?" 9. "Colored People Assuming A Position Independent of Their Pale-Face Brethren" Part IV: Pathology of the Ghetto 10. "Crime is Not All Owing to One Cause" 11. "No Other Class Struggles for a Livelihood Under So Many Disadvantages" 12. "Facts of a Deeply Deadly Nature" Conclusion Appendices Abbreviations Bibliography Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.08.2019
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Library Editions: Urban History
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	639 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8153-8557-9 / 0815385579
ISBN-13	978-0-8153-8557-8 / 9780815385578
Zustand	Neuware