To: Neocon who wrote (64 ) 1/28/2003 1:20:54 PM From: bearshark Read Replies (1) | Respond to I tried to find a few books from my library that provide some insight to the variety of experience of people of African descent in the 18th and 19th century. All are scholarly and none are rare. I think for a few of these you could still obtain the first and only printing. From north to south.Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England , Massachusetts, 1988. Some kings and governors in the U. S. that few know.Race Relations in Virginia and Miscegenation in the South 1776 - 1860 , Massachusetts, 1988. Read about the happy and believing master whose wife presented him with a handsome "well-tanned" son.Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia 1789 - 1879, Fayetteville, 1991.The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Ante-Bellum South , New York, 1972. This book introduces people to the Slave Narrative, many of which can be read online from the site I posted at the beginning of this thread.No Chariot Let Down: Charleston's Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War , North Carolina, 1984. Correspondence of the Ellison family of South Carolina. Although born a slave and of African descent, William Ellison, was a wealthy slave owner in South Carolina. Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South , New York, 1984. The story of William Ellison, former slave and wealthy slaveholder.
