Freedom's First Generation: Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890

Engs, Robert Francis

ISBN 10: 0812277686 / ISBN 13: 9780812277685

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979

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Dust jacket shows minimal, gentle wear. Page edges show foxing/spotting, not too terrible. No marks in text, not a library book. Ships in a cardboard enclosure, with tracking. Tim's Used Books, opening shop in Provincetown, Massachusetts, buying and selling good used books at fair prices since 1991.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Freedom's First Generation: Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812277686
• ISBN 13: 9780812277685
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

In this age of affirmative action and increasing complexity in black-white relations, this pioneering study of Hampton, Virginia, tells the story of what race relations in postbellum America might have been.Here, if only for a time, the promises of Emancipation and Reconstruction were fulfilled. Why was the American Dream realized by blacks in Hampton and not elsewhere? Engs follows a community of freedmen over a thirty-year period to answer this compelling question. Engs deserves credit for the sophistication and scope of his study and for his attention to the subtle and paradoxical. The questions addressed, the logical scope of the book, the depth of research, and the author's crisp writing style contribute to making this book a major addition to the literature.-Journal of American History

About the Author

ROBERT F. ENGS is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His other books include Educating the Disenfranchised: Samuel Chapman Armstrong and Hampton Institute, 1939-1893; Freedom’s First Generation: Black Hampton, Virginia (Fordham); and, with Randall E. Miller, The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans’ First Generation.