On the morning tide : African Americans, history and methodology in the historical ebb and flow of Hudson River society / A.J. Williams-Meyers.

Author/creator Williams-Myers, Albert James
Format Book
Publication InfoTrenton, NJ : Africa World Press, ©2003.
Descriptionxx, 262 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
African Americans--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.). --History.
African Americans--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.). --Historiography.
African Americans--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.). --Biography.
Slavery--Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.). --History.
Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--History.
Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--Historiography.
Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--Biography.

Contents A methodological approach to the reconstruction of an African-American presence in the mid-Hudson River Valley -- Slavery, African labor, and the slave trade in the Hudson River Valley in the early centuries of capital accumulation : text and documentation -- A portrait of Eve : toward a social history of Black women in the Hudson River Valley -- An African voice among the river folk of the Hudson River Valley : the diary of an exslave, 1827-1866 -- The African voice in Ossining, New York : Henry Gourdine and his life on the river -- The African voice in Albany, New York : Harriette Bowie Lewis Van Vranken remembers -- New York City, African Americans and selective memory : a historiographical assessment of Black presence before 1877 -- Chautauqua, New York, and the use and abuse of selective memory : is there a dark side to the lakeside resort? -- "Victims' history" : its value and use in a race-conscious society : New York as a case study -- "Weep not, child" : the plight of African Americans in antebellum New York City -- Possessed : on the streets of old New York in black and white (fiction in the making).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002009597
ISBN0865437580
ISBN0865437599 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks F127.H8 W577 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold