Invisible in Plain Sight : Self-Determination Strategies of Free Blacks in the Old Northwest / Jill E. Rowe.

Author
Rowe, Jill E., 1960- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Peter Lang, [2017]
Description
x, 119 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

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    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • The Virginia confederacy of Indians
    • Immigration of European indentured servants
    • Immigration of African indentured servants
    • Alliances between indigenous people and African indentured servants
    • Alliances between European indentured servants and African indentured servants
    • From African indentured servants to enslaved people
    • Race as a social construct: structural constraints on race mixing
    • African American legal status and the American Revolution
    • Registers of free Blacks
    • Western expansion
    • The relationship between western expansion and free Blacks
    • Migrations to Ohio
    • The goings clan: the genealogy
    • The migration of the goings clan to northwestern Ohio
    • The village of Rumley
    • The village of Carthagena
    • The village of Wren
    • The village of Middle Creek
    • Education in the Black settlements
    • The importance of the church in the Black settlements
    • Life in the Black settlements after the Civil War
    • Benevolence societies in the Black settlements
    • Social life in the Black settlements
    • Living conditions in the Black settlements
    • Health and wellness in the Black settlements
    • Health-seeking traditions in the Black settlements
    • Conclusions: invisible in plain sight: self-determination strategies.
    ISBN
    • 9781433134906 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 143313490X ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016021404
    OCLC
    960641849
    Other standard number
    • 99970340782
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