Nantucket's People of Color
Essays on History, Politics and Community
Published on 30. August 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
260 pages
978-0-7618-3495-3 (ISBN)
Description
Nantucket's People of Color is a fascinating study of Nantucket's African population from historical, cultural, and racial perspectives. While most other Africans were sold into slavery and bondage, the African-Americans and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket worked as free people and established communities and institutions such as schools and churches. This anthology examines the relationships that developed between Africans, Quakers, others of European descent, and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket and the events and controversies that both united and divided the larger community along "racial" lines.
This anthology is the culmination of more than ten years of scholarly research on the culture and history of Nantucket Island by James Bradford Ames Scholars. The James Bradford Ames Fellowship Program was established at the University of Massachusetts Boston to foster research into the history and culture of African-Americans and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket.
This anthology is the culmination of more than ten years of scholarly research on the culture and history of Nantucket Island by James Bradford Ames Scholars. The James Bradford Ames Fellowship Program was established at the University of Massachusetts Boston to foster research into the history and culture of African-Americans and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
430 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-3495-3 (9780761834953)
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Robert Johnson, Jr. is Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He received his J.D. from Cornell Law School and his M.P.S. in African & Afro-American Studies from Cornell University. He is an accomplished author of six scholarly works, numerous articles, and plays.
Content
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1. Absalom Boston and the Development of Nantucket's African-American Community
Chapter 4 2. Before Douglass: Racism and Nationalism in Nantucket's Newspapers in the Early Republic
Chapter 5 3. Anna Gardner: An Examination of Her Years as a Teacher of Freedom
Chapter 6 4. Frederick Douglass: The Nantucket Connection
Chapter 7 5. African-American Women in Nineteenth Century Nantucket: Spiritual Wives, Their Lives, and Their Stories
Chapter 8 6. Mary Ellen Pleasant's Nantucket
Chapter 9 7. Making Their Mark: African Nantucketers and Literacy
Chapter 10 8. The Cape Verdean Legacy of Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and Environs
Chapter 11 9. Patience A. Cooper: A Re-Evaluation of her Arrest and Trial in Nineteenth Century Nantucket
Chapter 12 10. Non-Maritime Occupational and Business History of African-Americans and Cape Verdeans
Chapter 13 Biographies of Contributors
Chapter 14 Index
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1. Absalom Boston and the Development of Nantucket's African-American Community
Chapter 4 2. Before Douglass: Racism and Nationalism in Nantucket's Newspapers in the Early Republic
Chapter 5 3. Anna Gardner: An Examination of Her Years as a Teacher of Freedom
Chapter 6 4. Frederick Douglass: The Nantucket Connection
Chapter 7 5. African-American Women in Nineteenth Century Nantucket: Spiritual Wives, Their Lives, and Their Stories
Chapter 8 6. Mary Ellen Pleasant's Nantucket
Chapter 9 7. Making Their Mark: African Nantucketers and Literacy
Chapter 10 8. The Cape Verdean Legacy of Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, and Environs
Chapter 11 9. Patience A. Cooper: A Re-Evaluation of her Arrest and Trial in Nineteenth Century Nantucket
Chapter 12 10. Non-Maritime Occupational and Business History of African-Americans and Cape Verdeans
Chapter 13 Biographies of Contributors
Chapter 14 Index