ISBN:
0-19-504732-X
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 340 S.
DDC:
973.0496073
Keywords:
Geschichte 1700-1860
;
Negers
;
Noirs américains - Histoire - Jusqu'à 1863
;
Noirs américains affranchis - Histoire
;
Vrijgelaten slaven
;
Geschichte
;
Schwarze
;
Schwarze. USA
;
African Americans History To 1863
;
Free African Americans History
;
Schwarze.
;
Soziale Situation.
;
USA Nordstaaten.
;
Nordstaaten
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte 1700-1860
;
Nordstaaten
;
Soziale Situation
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte 1700-1860
Abstract:
Prince Hall, a black veteran of the American Revolution, was insulted and disappointed but probably not surprised when white officials refused his offer of help. He had volunteered a troop of 700 Boston area blacks to help quell a rebellion of western Massachusetts farmers led by Daniel Shays during the economic turmoil in the uncertain period following independence. Many African Americans had fought for America's liberty and their own in the Revolution, but their place in the new nation was unresolved. As slavery was abolished in the North, free blacks gained greater opportunities, but still faced a long struggle against limits to their freedom, against discrimination, and against southern slavery. The lives of these men and women are vividly described in In Hope of Liberty, spanning the 200 years and eight generations from the colonial slave trade to the Civil War
Abstract:
In this marvelously peopled history, James and Lois Horton introduce us to a rich cast of characters. There are familiar historical figures such as Crispus Attucks, a leader of the Boston Massacre and one of the first casualties of the American Revolution; Sojourner Truth, former slave and eloquent antislavery and women's rights activist whose own family had been broken by slavery when her son became a wedding present for her owner's daughter; and Prince Whipple, George Washington's aide, easily recognizable in the portrait of Washington crossing the Delaware River
Abstract:
And there are the countless men and women who struggled to lead their daily lives with courage and dignity: Zilpha Elaw, a visionary revivalist who preached before crowds of thousands; David James Peck, the first black to graduate from an American medical school in 1848; Paul Cuffe, a successful seafaring merchant who became an ardent supporter of the black African colonization movement; and Nancy Prince, at eighteen the effective head of a scattered household of four siblings, each boarded in different homes, who at twenty-five was formally presented to the Russian court
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