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1 online resource (xvii, 286 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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New narratives in American history
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New narratives in American history.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282) and index. |
Summary |
Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation, to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. This book offers a portrait of her extended family and of the life of slaves before the Civil War. Based on family letters as well as an autobiography by one of her sons, the detective work follows a singular group as they walk the boundary between slave and free, traveling across the country in search of a "promised land" where African Americans would be treated with respect. This small family experienced the full gamut of slavery, witnessing everything from the breakup of slave families, brutal punishment, and runaways, to miscegenation, insurrection panics, and slave patrols. They also illuminate the hidden lives of "virtually free" slaves, who maintained close relationships with whites, maneuvered within the system, and gained a large measure of autonomy.--From publisher description. |
Contents |
Sally Thomas : a life in bondage. Virtual freedom ; Sally's children ; Sally's son James ; Sally's grandchildren: the Rapier boys -- From slavery to freedom. The domestic slave trade ; James Thomas: the boyhood years ; Barbershop -- Travels in the north and west. Nashville's Black community ; The changing attitudes of whites ; A fugitive slave in the north ; The California gold rush ; The epidemic's shadow -- In search of Canaan. Bound for Nicaragua ; The dilemma of John Rapier Sr. ; The Minnesota territory ; Canada West and James Thomas Rapier -- The Midwest, Haiti, and Jamaica. Into "Bleeding Kansas" ; Steamboating on the Mississippi ; John Rapier Jr. in the Caribbean -- This mighty scourge of war. James Thomas in St. Louis ; John Rapier Jr.'s continuing odyssey ; The war's end -- Afterword : through the prism of a black family -- Appendix 1. Petitions of Ephraim Foster and James Thomas to the Davidson County Court -- John Rapier Sr. to Richard Rapier, April 8, 1845 -- Appendix 3. John Rapier Jr. to James Thomas, July 28, 1861. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Thomas, Sally, 1787-1850.
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Thomas, Sally, 1787-1850. |
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Thomas, Sally, 1787-1850 -- Family.
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Families. |
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Thomas family.
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Thomas family. |
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Rapier family.
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Rapier family. |
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Thomas, Sally, 1787-1850. |
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Thomas family. |
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Rapier family. |
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Enslaved persons -- Tennessee -- Nashville -- Biography.
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Enslaved persons. |
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Tennessee -- Nashville. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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African Americans -- Tennessee -- Nashville -- Biography.
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African Americans. |
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Nashville (Tenn.) -- Biography.
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Nashville (Tenn.) -- Race relations.
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African American families -- Southern States -- Case studies.
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African American families. |
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Southern States. |
Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Subject |
Slavery -- Southern States -- Case studies.
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Slavery. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Case studies.
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Added Author |
Schweninger, Loren.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009. In search of the promised land. New York : Oxford University Press, 2006 0195160878 0195160886 (DLC) 2004061666 (OCoLC)56922466 |
ISBN |
1423746627 (electronic book) |
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9781423746621 (electronic book) |
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1602567247 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9781602567245 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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