A mind to stay : White plantation, Black homeland / Sydney Nathans.
A mind to stay : White plantation, Black homeland / Sydney Nathans.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Call Numbers
G 2017/6620
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Language
English
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Physical content
x, 313 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Prologue: Unexpected -- Part one. Proving ground: Spared -- "Emigrants" -- "A place perfectly detested" -- Held back -- Reversals -- Part two. A foothold in freedom: -- Exile's return -- "Against all comers" -- "If they can get the land" -- Part three. Beyond a living: "Hallelujah times" -- "A game...
Publication information
Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2017.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
A Mind to Stay is a unique and extraordinary historical narrative of generations of a Black family with roots in slavery and in the South. This family won their freedom with emancipation but, instead of fleeing the poverty and oppression of the White plantation, decided to stay on the homeland of their White masters and then to purchase it for them...
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A mind to stay : White plantation, Black homeland / Sydney Nathans.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Call Numbers
G 2017/6620
Record Identifier
74VKVGzLVwWy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVGzLVwWy
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ISBN
0674972147
9780674972148 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
306.3620976143
MMS ID
991024152500002626
