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Land And Labor: The Quest For Black Economic Independence On Virginia's Lower Peninsula, 1865-1880, Edna Greene Medford Sep 1992

Land And Labor: The Quest For Black Economic Independence On Virginia's Lower Peninsula, 1865-1880, Edna Greene Medford

Edna Greene Medford

Until quite recently, most of what we knew about antebellum slavery and the African-American experience in the postwar years resulted from generalizations regarding the cotton South. The tendency to focus on the heart of Dixie failed to take into account certain economic realities in the Upper South that shaped experiences under slavery and influenced freedpeople's adaptation to a new order.


Mystery Lives Even In New Jersey (Prose Poem), Jan Wellington Dec 1991

Mystery Lives Even In New Jersey (Prose Poem), Jan Wellington

Jan Wellington

No abstract provided.


Generational Theory And Collective Autobiography, John D. Hazlett Dec 1991

Generational Theory And Collective Autobiography, John D. Hazlett

John D Hazlett

Hazlett's essay examines the emergence of generational theory at the beginning of the 20th Century, considers some of the reasons for its popularity, and then shows how generationalism influenced the autobiographical writing of two self-proclaimed generational groups: the writers who came of age in the 1920s, and the group of activists and writers who came of age in the 1960s.


Another View Of The Sixties, Rowan Cahill Dec 1991

Another View Of The Sixties, Rowan Cahill

Rowan Cahill

A contribution to ongoing discussion about the 1960s, in which author Cahill challenges the idea popular at the time of writing, that being a radical during the period was simply an adolescent/youth role one fashionably and easily slipped into.


Wolf Carbide Cap Lamps (1992): 1-6., James A. Van Fleet, James Lackey Dec 1991

Wolf Carbide Cap Lamps (1992): 1-6., James A. Van Fleet, James Lackey

James A. Van Fleet

A history and photographic review of the Wolf brand carbide cap lamps marketed in America, from 1914 - 1937.