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- First Edition
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- 9781584652892
- Book Title
- Black Portsmouth : Three Centuries of African-American Heritage
- Item Length
- 9.9in
- Publisher
- University of New Hampshire Press
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Item Width
- 7in
- Item Weight
- 19.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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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.
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University of New Hampshire Press
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1584652896
ISBN-13
9781584652892
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Book Title
Black Portsmouth : Three Centuries of African-American Heritage
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2004
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
19.1 Oz
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F44.P8s25 2004
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"Here, we have a full-bodied cultural history of blacks in Portsmouth . . . I highly recommend it as both a good read and a primary text for all New England history and historians alike."--Portland (ME) Library Newsletter, "The book's creation stands as testament to the lives and contributions of blacks to their community, and to the collaboration possible between people of different races."Ñwww.seacoastonline.com, "The book's creation stands as testament to the lives and contributions of blacks to their community, and to the collaboration possible between people of different races."--www.seacoastonline.com, "This book chronicles the lives of black individuals; from the 17th-and 18th-Century slaves to the 19th- and 20th-Century freemen, they are all contributors to the development of this area. It includes the lives of dock workers, sailors, farm hands, craftsmen and those who built churches, social clubs, mutual aid societies and raised families. It ends with a chapter on current day Portsmouth." --Northern New Hampshire Magazine, "The book's creation stands as testament to the lives and contributions of blacks to their community, and to the collaboration possible between people of different races"--www.seacoastonline.com "Rooted in the lives of individuals, Black Portsmouth: Three Centuries of African American Heritage, is a lively story uncovering the buried history of black life in Portsmouth from 1648 until the present. The reader will meet coopers, tailors, mariners, printers, laundresses, dock workers, teachers, preachers and many more whose skills built a black community within the wider city of Portsmouth. Charles Lenox Redmond, Williams Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass are amount the nationally famous visitors remembered in the city. Other names known mostly in Portsmouth include Fowle, Whipple, Bruce and Spring. All are viewed against the background of the larger national history comprehensively recounted by the authors."--Kenneth A. Heidelberg, Site Manager, Boston African American National Historic Site, "The book's creation stands as testament to the lives and contributions of blacks to their community, and to the collaboration possible between people of different races."- www.seacoastonline.com, "The book's creation stands as testament to the lives and contributions of blacks to their community, and to the collaboration possible between people of different races."--www.seacoastonline.com "Rooted in the lives of individuals, Black Portsmouth: Three Centuries of African American Heritage, is a lively story uncovering the buried history of black life in Portsmouth from 1648 until the present. The reader will meet coopers, tailors, mariners, printers, laundresses, dock workers, teachers, preachers and many more whose skills built a black community within the wider city of Portsmouth. Charles Lenox Redmond, Williams Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass are amount the nationally famous visitors remembered in the city. Other names known mostly in Portsmouth include Fowle, Whipple, Bruce and Spring. All are viewed against the background of the larger national history comprehensively recounted by the authors."--Kenneth A. Heidelberg, Site Manager, Boston African American National Historic Site, "This book chronicles the lives of black individuals; from the 17th-and 18th-Century slaves to the 19th- and 20th-Century freemen, they are all contributors to the development of this area. It includes the lives of dock workers, sailors, farm hands, craftsmen and those who built churches, social clubs, mutual aid societies and raised families. It ends with a chapter on current day Portsmouth." ÑNorthern New Hampshire Magazine, The book's creation stands as testament to the lives and contributions of blacks to their community, and to the collaboration possible between people of different races., Black Portsmouth provides information about a vastly understudied population whose history is an essential part of, and provides essential perspective on, the history of Portsmouth. In the breadth of its coverage, it should lead to more specific and detailed work that fleshes out the histories of both the city and its people., "Black Portsmouth provides information about a vastly understudied population whose history is an essential part of, and provides essential perspective on, the history of Portsmouth. In the breadth of its coverage, it should lead to more specific and detailed work that fleshes out the histories of both the city and its people."-Historical New Hampshire, "This book chronicles the lives of black individuals; from the 17th-and 18th-Century slaves to the 19th- and 20th-Century freemen, they are all contributors to the development of this area. It includes the lives of dock workers, sailors, farm hands, craftsmen and those who built churches, social clubs, mutual aid societies and raised families. It ends with a chapter on current day Portsmouth." -Northern New Hampshire Magazine, "Here, we have a full-bodied cultural history of blacks in Portsmouth . . . I highly recommend it as both a good read and a primary text for all New England history and historians alike."- Portland (ME) Library Newsletter, "Black Portsmouth provides information about a vastly understudied population whose history is an essential part of, and provides essential perspective on, the history of Portsmouth. In the breadth of its coverage, it should lead to more specific and detailed work that fleshes out the histories of both the city and its people."ÑHistorical New Hampshire, "Black Portsmouth provides information about a vastly understudied population whose history is an essential part of, and provides essential perspective on, the history of Portsmouth. In the breadth of its coverage, it should lead to more specific and detailed work that fleshes out the histories of both the city and its people."--Historical New Hampshire, "Here, we have a full-bodied cultural history of blacks in Portsmouth . . . I highly recommend it as both a good read and a primary text for all New England history and historians alike."-Portland (ME) Library Newsletter, "Here, we have a full-bodied cultural history of blacks in Portsmouth . . . I highly recommend it as both a good read and a primary text for all New England history and historians alike."ÑPortland (ME) Library Newsletter, This book chronicles the lives of black individuals; from the 17th-and 18th-Century slaves to the 19th- and 20th-Century freemen, they are all contributors to the development of this area. It includes the lives of dock workers, sailors, farm hands, craftsmen and those who built churches, social clubs, mutual aid societies and raised families. It ends with a chapter on current day Portsmouth., "The book's creation stands as testament to the lives and contributions of blacks to their community, and to the collaboration possible between people of different races."-- www.seacoastonline.com "Rooted in the lives of individuals, Black Portsmouth: Three Centuries of African American Heritage, is a lively story uncovering the buried history of black life in Portsmouth from 1648 until the present. The reader will meet coopers, tailors, mariners, printers, laundresses, dock workers, teachers, preachers and many more whose skills built a black community within the wider city of Portsmouth. Charles Lenox Redmond, Williams Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass are amount the nationally famous visitors remembered in the city. Other names known mostly in Portsmouth include Fowle, Whipple, Bruce and Spring. All are viewed against the background of the larger national history comprehensively recounted by the authors."--Kenneth A. Heidelberg, Site Manager, Boston African American National Historic Site, "This book chronicles the lives of black individuals; from the 17th-and 18th-Century slaves to the 19th- and 20th-Century freemen, they are all contributors to the development of this area. It includes the lives of dock workers, sailors, farm hands, craftsmen and those who built churches, social clubs, mutual aid societies and raised families. It ends with a chapter on current day Portsmouth." - Northern New Hampshire Magazine, Here, we have a full-bodied cultural history of blacks in Portsmouth . . . I highly recommend it as both a good read and a primary text for all New England history and historians alike., "The book's creation stands as testament to the lives and contributions of blacks to their community, and to the collaboration possible between people of different races"--www.seacoastonline.com "Rooted in the lives of individuals, Black Portsmouth: Three Centuries of African American Heritage , is a lively story uncovering the buried history of black life in Portsmouth from 1648 until the present. The reader will meet coopers, tailors, mariners, printers, laundresses, dock workers, teachers, preachers and many more whose skills built a black community within the wider city of Portsmouth. Charles Lenox Redmond, Williams Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass are amount the nationally famous visitors remembered in the city. Other names known mostly in Portsmouth include Fowle, Whipple, Bruce and Spring. All are viewed against the background of the larger national history comprehensively recounted by the authors."--Kenneth A. Heidelberg, Site Manager, Boston African American National Historic Site, "The book's creation stands as testament to the lives and contributions of blacks to their community, and to the collaboration possible between people of different races."-www.seacoastonline.com, "Black Portsmouth provides information about a vastly understudied population whose history is an essential part of, and provides essential perspective on, the history of Portsmouth. In the breadth of its coverage, it should lead to more specific and detailed work that fleshes out the histories of both the city and its people."- Historical New Hampshire
Table of Content
Preface - The Seaport - Colonists Portsmouth and the Slave Trade Sale of Enslaved People White Fears, Regulation, and Legislation One Negro Man £200, One Ditto Woman £50: Location, Labor, Value Skilled Craftspeople Fortune and James: Invisibility Hannah, Pomp, Nanne, Violet, Scipio: Agricultural Work Quamino, Prince, Nero, a Negro Girl, Cato, Peter, John Jack, and Phyllis: The Role of Slavery among the White Colonial Elite Venus: Decoding Clues North Church People: Status and Religion Nero Brewster, Willie Clarkson, Jock Odiorne, Pharaoh Shores: Black Coronations, Internal Status. and Social Control The Unnamed, Unrecorded Dead: Health, Medicine, Death, Burial The Cotton and Hunking Families: Family, Women, Marriage Revolutionary Petitioners: Politics and Freedom Prince Whipple: Revolution and Freedom Free Black People in an Era of Slavery The Long-Range Impacts of the Slave System - Early Americans "3 Very Old Negroes Almost Good for Nothing": The Plight of the Elderly in Freedom Prince, Cuffee, Dinah, and Rebecca Whipple: A Sample Family Living in Freedom Siras Bruce and Flora Stoodley Bruce: New Freedom, Limited Options Pomp and Candace Spring: A Glimpse of Home and Home Life Dinah GIbson: Making It on Her Own Richard Potter: Making an Itinerant Living in Entertainment Black Marines of Portsmouth: Life at Sea and at Home Esther Whipple Mullinaux: Kinship and Cluster Diffusion - Abolition Portsmouth's Continued Participation in Slavery Frederick Douglass, Charles Lenox Remond, William Wells Brown: Black Abolitionist Orators and the Civil War Years in Portsmouth *"Most of the Colored People of the City, Both Old and Young": Celebrating Emancipation - Community People's Baptist Church: Spiritual Life, Religious Community Deacon Haywood Burton: Community Leader Gearge M. King, Ralph Reed, Albert Auylor: Social Clubs and Political Action The Klan in Portsmouth Louis George Gregory and Louisa Matthews Gregory: Spiritual Leaders for Racial Unity Elizabeth Virgil: Quiet Pioneer, Witness to a Changing World Owen Finnigan Cooper, Eugene Reid, John Ramsay, Emerson Reed, Doris Moore, Anna Jones: World War II and the Patriotic Service Rosary Broxay Cooper: Migration, Career Options, Patriotic Service - Civil Rights Lost Boundaries, Broken Barriers Thomas CObbs: Making a Living, Making a Difference Legislating Destruction: Government Policy and the Black Experience Working Together, Seeking Understanding: The Seacoast Council on Race and Religion - Living with Diversity - Coffins Under the Street: An Afterword Appendix: Places Associated with Narratives in This Book Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
2004-007172
Dewey Decimal
305.8/96073/07426
Intended Audience
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Series
Revisiting New England Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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