New Hampshire A Slave State

Author : Mark Sammons,Valerie Cunningham
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1584652896

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Black Portsmouth by Mark Sammons,Valerie Cunningham Pdf

Few people think of a rich Black heritage when they think of New England. In the pioneering book Black Portsmouth, Mark J. Sammons and Valerie Cunningham celebrate it, guiding the reader through more than three centuries of New England and Portsmouth social, political, economic, and cultural history as well as scores of personal and site-specific stories. Here, we meet such Africans as the "likely negro boys and girls from Gambia," who debarked at Portsmouth from a slave ship in 1758, and Prince Whipple, who fought in the American Revolution. We learn about their descendants, including the performer Richard Potter and John Tate of the People’s Baptist Church, who overcame the tragedies and challenges of their ancestors’ enslavement and subsequent marginalization to build communities and families, found institutions, and contribute to their city, region, state, and nation in many capacities. Individual entries speak to broader issues—the anti-slavery movement, American religion, and foodways, for example. We also learn about the extant historical sites important to Black Portsmouth—including the surprise revelation of an African burial ground in October 2003—as well as the extraordinary efforts being made to preserve remnants of the city’s early Black heritage.

Author : Michelle Arnosky Sherburne
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625856371

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Slavery & the Underground Railroad in New Hampshire by Michelle Arnosky Sherburne Pdf

New Hampshire was once a hotbed of abolitionist activity. But the state had its struggles with slavery, with Portsmouth serving as a slave-trade hub for New England. Abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison, Nathaniel Peabody Rogers and Stephen Symonds Foster helped create a statewide antislavery movement. Abolitionists and freed slaves assisted in transporting escapees to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Author Michelle Arnosky Sherburne uncovers the truth about slavery, the Underground Railroad and the abolitionist movement in New Hampshire.

Author : New-Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society [
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021127159

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Annual Report of the New Hampshire Anti-slavery Society ... 1st; 1835- by New-Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society [ Pdf

This annual report provides insight into the efforts of the New Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society in 1835 to abolish slavery. It contains detailed information on the society's activities and highlights its successes and challenges. A unique historical document that sheds light on the abolitionist movement in New Hampshire. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Joanne Pope Melish
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501702921

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Disowning Slavery by Joanne Pope Melish Pdf

Following the abolition of slavery in New England, white citizens seemed to forget that it had ever existed there. Drawing on a wide array of primary sources—from slaveowners' diaries to children's daybooks to racist broadsides—Joanne Pope Melish reveals not only how northern society changed but how its perceptions changed as well. Melish explores the origins of racial thinking and practices to show how ill-prepared the region was to accept a population of free people of color in its midst. Because emancipation was gradual, whites transferred prejudices shaped by slavery to their relations with free people of color, and their attitudes were buttressed by abolitionist rhetoric which seemed to promise riddance of slaves as much as slavery. She tells how whites came to blame the impoverished condition of people of color on their innate inferiority, how racialization became an important component of New England ante-bellum nationalism, and how former slaves actively participated in this discourse by emphasizing their African identity. Placing race at the center of New England history, Melish contends that slavery was important not only as a labor system but also as an institutionalized set of relations. The collective amnesia about local slavery's existence became a significant component of New England regional identity.

Author : William Eaton Chandler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : New Hampshire
ISBN : HARVARD:32044105247878

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New Hampshire a Slave State by William Eaton Chandler Pdf

Author : New Hampshire. General Court. House of Representatives,New Hampshire. General Court. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1622 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Legislative journals
ISBN : UIUC:30112109665775

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Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of New-Hampshire, at Their Session ... by New Hampshire. General Court. House of Representatives,New Hampshire. General Court. Senate Pdf

Author : Sean D. Moore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192573407

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Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries by Sean D. Moore Pdf

Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital. Drawing on recent scholarship that shows how participation in London cultural life was very expensive in the eighteenth century, as well as evidence that enslavers were therefore some of the few early Americans who could afford to import British cultural products, the volume merges the fields of the history of the book, Atlantic studies, and the study of race, arguing that the empire-wide circulation of British books was underwritten by the labour of the African diaspora. The volume is the first in early American and eighteenth-century British studies to fuse our growing understanding of the material culture of the transatlantic text with our awareness of slavery as an economic and philanthropic basis for the production and consumption of knowledge. In studying the American dissemination of works of British literature and political thought, it claims that Americans were seeking out the forms of citizenship, constitutional traditions, and rights that were the signature of that British identity. Even though they were purchasing the sovereignty of Anglo-Americans at the expense of African-Americans through these books, however, some colonials were also making the case for the abolition of slavery.

Author : Douglas A. Blackmon
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848314139

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Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon Pdf

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.

Author : Ben H. Winters
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316261234

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Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters Pdf

The bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened? A New York Times bestseller; a Goodreads Choice finalist; named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Slate, Publishers Weekly, Hudson Bookseller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kirkus Reviews, AudioFile Magazine, and Amazon A young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service in exchange for his freedom. He's got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called "the Hard Four." On the trail of a runaway known as Jackdaw, Victor arrives in Indianapolis knowing that something isn't right -- with the case file, with his work, and with the country itself. As he works to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines, tracking Jackdaw through the back rooms of churches, empty parking garages, hotels, and medical offices, Victor believes he's hot on the trail. But his strange, increasingly uncanny pursuit is complicated by a boss who won't reveal the extraordinary stakes of Jackdaw's case, as well as by a heartbreaking young woman and her child -- who may be Victor's salvation. Victor believes himself to be a good man doing bad work, unwilling to give up the freedom he has worked so hard to earn. But in pursuing Jackdaw, Victor discovers secrets at the core of the country's arrangement with the Hard Four, secrets the government will preserve at any cost. Underground Airlines is a ground-breaking novel, a wickedly imaginative thriller, and a story of an America that is more like our own than we'd like to believe.

Author : New Hampshire. General Court. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Legislative journals
ISBN : NYPL:33433011445271

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Journal of the Senate of New Hampshire by New Hampshire. General Court. Senate Pdf

Author : New Hampshire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Session laws
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063507250

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Laws of the State of New Hampshire by New Hampshire Pdf

Author : Wendy Warren
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631492150

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New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America by Wendy Warren Pdf

A New York Times Editor’s Choice "This book is an original achievement, the kind of history that chastens our historical memory as it makes us wiser." —David W. Blight Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Widely hailed as a “powerfully written” history about America’s beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound fundamentally changes the story of America’s seventeenth-century origins. Building on the works of giants like Bernard Bailyn and Edmund S. Morgan, Wendy Warren has not only “mastered that scholarship” but has now rendered it in “an original way, and deepened the story” (New York Times Book Review). While earlier histories of slavery largely confine themselves to the South, Warren’s “panoptical exploration” (Christian Science Monitor) links the growth of the northern colonies to the slave trade and examines the complicity of New England’s leading families, demonstrating how the region’s economy derived its vitality from the slave trading ships coursing through its ports. And even while New England Bound explains the way in which the Atlantic slave trade drove the colonization of New England, it also brings to light, in many cases for the first time ever, the lives of the thousands of reluctant Indian and African slaves who found themselves forced into the project of building that city on a hill. We encounter enslaved Africans working side jobs as con artists, enslaved Indians who protested their banishment to sugar islands, enslaved Africans who set fire to their owners’ homes and goods, and enslaved Africans who saved their owners’ lives. In Warren’s meticulous, compelling, and hard-won recovery of such forgotten lives, the true variety of chattel slavery in the Americas comes to light, and New England Bound becomes the new standard for understanding colonial America.

Author : Alfred W Blumrosen,Ruth G Blumrosen
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402226113

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Slave Nation by Alfred W Blumrosen,Ruth G Blumrosen Pdf

A book all Americans should read, Slave Nation reveals the key role racism played in the American Revolutionary War, so we can see our past more clearly and build a better future. In 1772, the High Court in London freed a slave from Virginia named Somerset, setting a precedent that would end slavery in England. In America, racist fury over this momentous decision united the Northern and Southern colonies and convinced them to fight for independence. Meticulously researched and accessible, Slave Nation provides a little-known view of the birth of our nation and its earliest steps toward self-governance. Slave Nation is a fascinating account of the role slavery played in the American Revolution and in the framing of the Constitution, offering a fresh examination of the "fight for freedom" that embedded racism into our national identity, led to the Civil War, and reverberates through Black Lives Matter protests today. "A radical, well-informed, and highly original reinterpretation of the place of slavery in the American War of Independence."—David Brion Davis, Yale University

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1550 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Legislation
ISBN : SRLF:A0004367587

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Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."

Author : Jeffrey Brace
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299201432

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The Blind African Slave by Jeffrey Brace Pdf

The Blind African Slave recounts the life of Jeffrey Brace (né Boyrereau Brinch), who was born in West Africa around 1742. Captured by slave traders at the age of sixteen, Brace was transported to Barbados, where he experienced the shock and trauma of slave-breaking and was sold to a New England ship captain. After fighting as an enslaved sailor for two years in the Seven Years War, Brace was taken to New Haven, Connecticut, and sold into slavery. After several years in New England, Brace enlisted in the Continental Army in hopes of winning his manumission. After five years of military service, he was honorably discharged and was freed from slavery. As a free man, he chose in 1784 to move to Vermont, the first state to make slavery illegal. There, he met and married an African woman, bought a farm, and raised a family. Although literate, he was blind when he decided to publish his life story, which he narrated to a white antislavery lawyer, Benjamin Prentiss, who published it in 1810. Upon his death in 1827, Brace was a well-respected abolitionist. In this first new edition since 1810, Kari J. Winter provides a historical introduction, annotations, and original documents that verify and supplement our knowledge of Brace's life and times.