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Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from 1790s Through the Civil War [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 640 pages, height x width x depth: 248x171x44 mm, weight: 1070 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 15-Dec-2004
  • Izdevniecība: Knopf Australia
  • ISBN-10: 0679447385
  • ISBN-13: 9780679447382
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Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from 1790s Through the Civil WarPalielināt
  • Formāts: Hardback, 640 pages, height x width x depth: 248x171x44 mm, weight: 1070 g
  • Izdošanas datums: 15-Dec-2004
  • Izdevniecība: Knopf Australia
  • ISBN-10: 0679447385
  • ISBN-13: 9780679447382
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Describes how Richard Randolph, a cousin of Thomas Jefferson, left land upon his death for his former slaves to build new lives for themselves, detailing the evolution of a vibrant community called Israel Hill along the Appomattox River until the Civil War ended slavery.

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Winner of Bancroft Prize 2005. Commended for Lukas Prize Project (Lynton History Prize) 2005.
An Opening Word: Black Slavery, Black Freedom ix
The View from Israel Hill, 1863
5(11)
Liberty and Happiness
16(35)
Citizen Richard Randolph and His Slaves
16(17)
Subordination Was Entirely Out of the Question
33(18)
The Promised Land
51(56)
As Comfortable as the Best in Israel Hill
51(19)
Neighbors
70(25)
To Inclose His Little Plantation: The Free Black Drive for Independence
95(12)
Work
107(68)
Sweating Like a Harvest Field Hand
107(10)
Craft, Mystery, and Occupation
117(27)
To Run the Road with a Waggon or the River with a Boat
144(31)
Challenges
175(50)
Nat Turner
175(11)
Edmund Young and Free Black Resistance
186(10)
Idleness, Poverty, and Dissipation: The Birth of a Proslavery Myth
196(29)
Law and Order
225(59)
Boisterous Passions and Paneless Windows
225(36)
To Maim, Disfigure, Disable, and Kill
261(23)
Worldviews
284(61)
Kindred Cultures
284(17)
Callousness and Closeness
301(8)
Clashing Values
309(27)
The Wisdom of Solomon
336(9)
Progress and Struggle
345(57)
For Richer, for Poorer
345(25)
Black Freedom and the Crisis of the Union
370(32)
Appomattox and the New Birth of Freedom
402(33)
POSTSCRIPT: The Search for Meaning in the Southern Free Black Experience
435(20)
Documents
447(8)
Will of Richard Randolph
Will of Betty Dwin
Will of Thomas Ford
Colonel James Madison on Emancipated Slaves
Will of Philip Bowman
Will of Anthony (Tony) White
Sources and Interpretations 455(14)
Abbreviations in Notes and Remarks on Primary Sources 469(6)
Notes 475(140)
Acknowledgments 615(6)
Index 621