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Black Female Landowners In Richmond, Virginia 1850-1877, Hannah Catherine Craddock
Black Female Landowners In Richmond, Virginia 1850-1877, Hannah Catherine Craddock
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Absconded: Fugitive Slaves In The "Daybook Of The Richmond Police Guard, 1834--1844", Leni Ashmore Sorensen
Absconded: Fugitive Slaves In The "Daybook Of The Richmond Police Guard, 1834--1844", Leni Ashmore Sorensen
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In the antebellum period Richmond, Virginia newspapers ran advertisements for runaway slaves. Most of the ads concerned individuals absconded from outlying counties, distant regions of the state, or nearby states. These short notices have been used frequently to describe and discuss runaways and the link between flight and freedom in Virginia. In contrast to the brief newspaper entries the Daybook of the Richmond Police Guard, 1834--1844 provides names and detailed descriptions of nine hundred-thirty-five runaways all of whom lived in the city and were reported within the city precincts during one ten year period. The Daybook is a hand written …
A Tradition Of Doubt: Women And Slavery In Nineteenth-Century Virginia, Leslie C. Hunt
A Tradition Of Doubt: Women And Slavery In Nineteenth-Century Virginia, Leslie C. Hunt
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"Neither Bedecked Nor Bebosomed": Lucy Randolph Mason, Ella Baker And Women's Leadership And Organizing In The Struggle For Freedom, Susan Milane Glisson
"Neither Bedecked Nor Bebosomed": Lucy Randolph Mason, Ella Baker And Women's Leadership And Organizing In The Struggle For Freedom, Susan Milane Glisson
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This dissertation examines the feminized and racialized strategies of women organizers in the struggle for freedom. The lives of Lucy Randolph Mason and Ella Jo Baker suggest much about the ways in which women reject and change traditional leadership roles in order to create, build, and maintain the momentum of mass movements. Both women believed in the fundamental necessity of local people determining the responses to their oppression. This work, therefore, is an attempt to offer a description of Mason and Baker's organizing strategies and leadership styles, a description which can be read as a manual for creating social change.;Each …
On The Front Lines Of Freedom: Black And White Women Shape Emancipation In Virginia, 1861-1890, Antoinette G. Van Zelm
On The Front Lines Of Freedom: Black And White Women Shape Emancipation In Virginia, 1861-1890, Antoinette G. Van Zelm
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Black and white women in Virginia were on the front lines of the struggle over emancipation during and after the Civil War. Between 1861 and 1890, both former slave and former slaveholding women shaped black freedom and thereby re-invented themselves as citizens within their local communities.;Focusing on women who lived in the southeastern and south-central regions of Virginia, this study expands the narrative of Southern history to encompass the vigorous contest between black and white women over the meanings of slavery, the war, and freedom. Based on federal records and private papers, this dissertation assesses women's ideas about the end …
"So That I Get Her Again": African American Slave Women Runaways In Selected Richmond, Virginia Newspapers, 1830-1860, And The Richmond, Virginia Police Guard Daybook, 1834-1843, Leni Ashmore Sorensen
"So That I Get Her Again": African American Slave Women Runaways In Selected Richmond, Virginia Newspapers, 1830-1860, And The Richmond, Virginia Police Guard Daybook, 1834-1843, Leni Ashmore Sorensen
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
African American Professional Women Active From 1920-1960: An Historical Analysis, Crystal Marie Lyles
African American Professional Women Active From 1920-1960: An Historical Analysis, Crystal Marie Lyles
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No abstract provided.
Womanpower In The Civil Rights Movement, Yvette Hutchinson
Womanpower In The Civil Rights Movement, Yvette Hutchinson
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No abstract provided.