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Author : Elise A. Guyette
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781584657606
The search for an African American community in rural Vermont
Author : Elise A. Guyette
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781584659082
The search for an African American community in rural Vermont
Author : Jane C. Beck
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252097287
A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--"a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved"--began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century and more of life. In 1983, folklorist Jane Beck began a series of interviews with Turner, then one hundred years old and still relating four generations of oral history. Beck uses Turner's storytelling to build the Turner family saga, using at its foundation the oft-repeated touchstone stories at the heart of their experiences: the abduction into slavery of Turner's African ancestors; Daisy's father Alec Turner learning to read; his return as a soldier to his former plantation to kill his former overseer; and Daisy's childhood stand against racism. Other stories re-create enslavement and her father's life in Vermont--in short, the range of life events large and small, transmitted by means so alive as to include voice inflections. Beck, at the same time, weaves in historical research and offers a folklorist's perspective on oral history and the hazards--and uses--of memory. Publication of this book is supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the L. J. and Mary C. Skaggs Folklore Fund.
Author : Harvey Amani Whitfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Slavery
ISBN : 0934720622
Author : Sara Rath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0934720665
A well-researched historical novel about Achsa Sprague (1827-1862), a Vermont woman and itinerant medium who gave popular lectures on Spiritualism, the abolition of slavery, women's rights, and prison reform.
Author : Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780061950407
Lucy Terry was a devoted wife and mother, and the first known African-American poet. Abijah Prince, her husband, was a veteran of the French and Indian Wars and an entrepreneur. Together they pursued what would become the cornerstone of the American dream — having a family and owning property where they could live, grow, and prosper. When bigoted neighbors tried to run them off their own property, they asserted their rights, as they would do many times, in court. Merging comprehensive research and grand storytelling, Mr. and Mrs. Prince reveals the true story of a remarkable pre-Civil War African-American family, as well as the challenges that faced African-Americans who lived in the North. Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina is the author and editor of several books, including Carrington, Black London (a New York Times notable book), Black Victorians/Black Victoriana, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. She is the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography at Dartmouth College, where she is the first African-American woman to chair an Ivy League English Department. She has won grants from Fulbright and the National Endowment for Humanities and hosts “The Book Show,” a nationally syndicated weekly radio program that airs on ninety stations across the country. “Compelling ... History and mystery mix in this tale to make Mr. and Mrs. Prince as absorbing as it surprising and informative.” — Christian Science Monitor
Author : Paul M. Searls
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 0934720703
"Repeopling Vermont: The Paradox of Development in the Twentieth Century, by historian Paul Searls, traces two distinct but interrelated stories to illuminate the fundamental contradictions and ironies that defined Vermont in the twentieth century. One is the story of a group of Swedish immigrants who settled in and around Landgrove in the 1890s and their descendants. The other is the story of Samuel R. Ogden, who beginning in 1929 purchased most of the buildings in the main village of Landgrove and set out to revitalize the town. Ogden succeeded in that project and subsequently became an important public servant to Vermont; he was instrumental in the growth of the ski industry, and was a founder of both Vermont Life magazine and the Vermont Natural Resources Council. These intertwined stories reveal the central paradox of Vermont in the twentieth century. The state's leaders simultaneously saw Vermont's overwhelmingly rural character as both a distressing problem in need of a solution, and the state's greatest asset. But their efforts to preserve Vermont's precious rural heritage, it's human and physical landscapes, while at the same time improving the state, also put that same way of life in peril. Those developments continue to reverberate throughout Vermont in the twenty-first century, shaping the experience of everyone who lives in or visits the Green Mountain State today"--
Author : Graham Reynolds
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552668566
In 1946, Viola Desmond was wrongfully arrested for sitting in a whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In 2010, the Nova Scotia Government recognized this gross miscarriage of justice and posthumously granted her a free pardon. Most Canadians are aware of Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a racially segregated bus in Alabama, but Viola Desmond’s act of resistance occurred nine years earlier. However, many Canadians are still unaware of Desmond’s story or that racial segregation existed throughout many parts of Canada during most of the twentieth century. On the subject of race, Canadians seem to exhibit a form of collective amnesia. Viola Desmond’s Canada is a groundbreaking book that provides a concise overview of the narrative of the Black experience in Canada. Reynolds traces this narrative from slavery under French and British rule in the eighteenth century to the practice of racial segregation and the fight for racial equality in the twentieth century. Included are personal recollections by Wanda Robson, Viola Desmond’s youngest sister, together with important but previously unpublished documents and other primary sources in the history of Blacks in Canada. NEW: Teaching Guide Available Here
Author : Bonnie T. Clause
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781611683295
A delightful account of Edward Hopper's sojourns in Vermont with his wife, Jo, illustrated by the watercolors and drawings that he made there
Author : Paul S. Gillies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Justice, Administration of
ISBN : 0934720681
Author : Wendy Clinch
Publisher : Unmediated Ink
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0615877923
In DOUBLE BLACK, Boston's twenty-something Stacey Curtis ditches her cheating fiance and heads for a Vermont ski town. She's looking for the life she's always dreamed about, but she stumbles instead into financial intrigue, bitter family warfare, and murder. Populated with quirky characters, loaded with New England atmosphere, and starring a young woman with nerve, spunk and a sense of humor about it all, DOUBLE BLACK is an exciting run down some treacherous mountain trails.
Author : Michael Medearis,Angela Shelf Medearis
Publisher : august house
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0916718239
Daisy, an eight-year-old black girl living in rural Vermont in the 1890s, is given a black doll by her teacher and becomes uncomfortable that her skin is a different color from that of her classmates, until she finds the courage to speak from her heart.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015051610437
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Author : Alton Hornsby Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1031 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781573569767
This two-volume encyclopedia presents a state-by-state history of African Americans in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. African American populations are established in every area of the United States, including Hawaii and Alaska (more than10 percent of the population of Fairbanks, Alaska, is African American). Black Americans have played an invaluable role in creating our great nation in myriad ways, including their physical contributions and labor during the slavery era; intellectually, spiritually, and politically; in service to our country in military duty; and in areas of popular culture such as music, art, sports, and entertainment. The chapters extend chronologically from the colonial period to the present. Each chapter presents a timeline of African American history in the state, a historical overview, notable African Americans and their pioneering accomplishments, and state-specific traditions or activities. This state-by-state treatment of information allows readers to take pride in what happened in their state and in the famous people who came from their state.
Author : Amy Godine
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501771699
The Black Woods chronicles the history of Black pioneers in New York's northern wilderness. From the late 1840s into the 1860s, they migrated to the Adirondacks to build farms and to vote. On their new-worked land, they could meet the $250 property requirement New York's constitution imposed on Black voters in 1821, and claim the rights of citizenship. Three thousand Black New Yorkers were gifted with 120,000 acres of Adirondack land by Gerrit Smith, an upstate abolitionist and heir to an immense land fortune. Smith's suffrage-seeking plan was endorsed by Frederick Douglass and most leading Black abolitionists. The antislavery reformer John Brown was such an advocate that in 1849 he moved his family to Timbuctoo, a new Black Adirondack settlement in the woods. Smith's plan was prescient, anticipating Black suffrage reform, affirmative action, environmental distributive justice, and community-based racial equity more than a century before these were points of public policy. But when the response to Smith's offer fell radically short of his high hopes, Smith's zeal cooled. Timbuctoo, Freemen's Home, Blacksville and other settlements were forgotten. History would marginalize this Black community for 150 years. In The Black Woods, Amy Godine recovers a robust history of Black pioneers who carved from the wilderness a future for their families and their civic rights. Her immersive story returns the Black pioneers and their descendants to their rightful place at the center of this history. With stirring accounts of racial justice, and no shortage of heroes, The Black Woods amplifies the unique significance of the Adirondacks in the American imagination.