Henry Goings, a barber and steamboat operator, was born into slavery in Virginia in 1810. After he procured the freedom papers of a man he resembled, Goings lived as a fugitive from slavery for 18 yea
This new history of Gabriel's Rebellion, the unsuccessful uprising of slaves in Richmond Virginia in 1800, examines recent literature and archival documents to provide a new perspective on the scope a
The decisive victories in the fight for racial equality in America were not easily won, much less inevitable; they were achieved through carefully conceived strategy and the work of tireless individua
Virginia was a battleground state in the struggle to implement Brown v. Board of Education, with one of the South’s largest and strongest NAACP units fighting against a program of noncompliance craft
Schwarz argues that by migrating to states to the north and west of their native Virginia especially to Ohio to escape from the practice of slavery, both the well- known figures, such as fugitive Anth
In his examination of a wide array of court papers from Albemarle County, a rural Virginia slaveholding community, Kirt von Daacke argues against the commonly held belief that southern whites saw free
The Punitive Turn explores the historical, political, economic, and sociocultural roots of mass incarceration, as well as its collateral costs and consequences. Giving significant attention to the exa
The plans for a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in 1800, orchestrated by a literate enslaved blacksmith named Gabriel, leaked out before they could be executed, and he and twenty-five other
The plans for a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in 1800, orchestrated by a literate enslaved blacksmith named Gabriel, leaked out before they could be executed, and he and twenty-five other
McNair (history, Kenyon College) and a former special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms examined more than 400 capital cases in his comprehensive exploration of a criminal justic
African American theologian Stewart (1803-79) may have been the first American woman of any race to give a political speech before an audience of both men and women and to have left copies of her rema
"This book describes how the early NAACP successfully organized a voting bloc in 1920s Atlanta powerful enough to force the city to build its first publicly funded Black high school"--Provided by publ
Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada. Born Elijah Turner in the Virginia Tidewater, circa 1810, the author ev
In the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools of the American south. In Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 19
In the late nineteenth century, prisoners in Alabama, the vast majority of them African Americans, were forced to work as coal miners under the most horrendous conditions imaginable. Black Prisoners a
