The Evolution of a Rural Free Black Community: Black Studies at Work in the World - Brossura

Butler, Reginald D.

 
9780813952604: The Evolution of a Rural Free Black Community: Black Studies at Work in the World
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ISBN 10: 0813952603 ISBN 13: 9780813952604
Casa editrice: Univ of Virginia Pr, 2025

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A long-awaited work by one of the deans of Black studies

Reginald Butler, the second director of UVA’s Carter G. Woodson Institute, wrote an influential and much-cited but never published dissertation at Johns Hopkins University that focused on community formation among the free Black population of Virginia. His innovative and meticulous research in county and state archives enabled him to reconstruct the ties that bound free Black Virginians to each other and their enslaved neighbors, as well as to white employers and officials.

Butler showed that community formation emerged in response to an oppressive, often violent regime of racial domination, yet it also depended on the critical role free Black people played in the local economy and their ability to sustain reciprocally beneficial working relations with their white neighbors. By reconstructing the lived experience of free Black families and the community they created at the neighborhood level, Butler’s revelatory study offers still fresh perspectives on race and slavery in the formative decades of Virginian and American history. Now this seminal work finally sees the light of day, accompanied by several framing essays that properly situate Butler’s foundational scholarship on free Black Americans in this still-burgeoning field.

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Informazioni sull'autore

The late Reginald D. Butler served as the second director of the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies from 1996 until 2005. Peter S. Onuf is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Virginia.

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Editore
Univ of Virginia Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2025
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0813952603
ISBN 13 
9780813952604
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Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
298
Redattore
Onuf Peter S.
Contatto del produttore
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Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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9780813952598: The Evolution of a Rural Free Black Community: Goochland County, Virginia, 1782-1832 (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series)

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ISBN 10:  081395259X ISBN 13:  9780813952598
Casa editrice: University of Virginia Press, 2025
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