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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"freedmen"”.
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Politicising Manumission and Freedmen in the Late Roman Republic and the Augustan Principate
… sources, however, paint a deeply hostile view of freedmen in particular and this warped representation of reality has often been accepted by scholars without further examination. This thesis argues that we can only fully understand the socio-political realities of freedmen during the Late Roman …
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Set A Light In A Dark Place: Teachers Of Freedmen In Florida, 1863-18
… for citizenship. Teachers found Florida's freedmen determined to acquire literacy by whatever means they could, but they faced a white populace resistant to outsiders. Reformers, politicians, literate blacks, and Yankee businessmen intent on socially, politically, and economically …
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“They Know Too Much Already:” Black Education in Post-Emancipation Era Columbus, GA, 1866-1876
… very little has been written about Columbus’s freedmen schools created after the U.S. Civil War. As a result, a comprehensive history of Columbus’s freedmen does not exist, and those written are fragmented. The focus of this study is to document the beginnings of Columbus’s freedmen school …
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Seminole Freedmen's Identity in Plural Setting (Ethnicity, Black-Indian, Symbol, Oklahoma)
… of America, there are Afro-American, Seminole Freedmen, Seminole Indians and White men and women. Neither the Black nor the Indian populations are homogeneous. There are two categories of Blacks, one of which is variously known as "Seminole Freedmen" or "Natives," the other of which is known as …
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From a Northern Home to a Southern School: Cultural Imperialists or Just Stubborn Yankees
… Furthermore, the northern relief agencies, Freedmen's Bureau agents, southern white citizens, and southern freedmen all had their own opinions for the education of the students. Although much time has elapsed between the 1860s and 2013, the same topics and contextual forces are again …
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LaVilla, Florida, 1866-1887: Reconstruction Dreams and the Formation of a Black Community
… by wealthy white families. At war's end, freedmen seeking shelter and work took advantage of the inexpensive housing and proximity to employment LaVilla offered and, by 1870, became the majority population. The years 1866 through 1887 have been chosen for this study because they demarcate …
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Dawn of Freedom:' The Freedmen's town of Mitchelville On Hilton Head Island, S.C.
… War ended. It helps us see the opportunities freedmen had in communities along the periphery of Union army camps. The story of Mitchelville and Hilton Head Island also highlights the often-contentious relationships between formerly enslaved people, Union army, and the Northern missionaries who …
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The Challenges Faced by the Freedmen’s Bureau Agents of Deep East Texas
… Congress established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands in 1865 to provide a smoother transition in former Confederate states and to guard the liberties of the former bondsmen. The agents of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Deep East Texas faced the same challenges and hardships as …
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From slavery to equal protection: the misinterpretation of the fourteenth amendment and its lasting effects on American society
… equal protection of the law to all newly freedmen. By engaging in this research, it is my goal to explain the Fourteenth Amendment as it was enacted and intended to be; as well as provide a comparative study of how it has been widely interpreted. In addition, I reference landmark Supreme …
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"To Make Him Feel His Manhood" : Black Male Identity and the Politics of Gender In the Post-Emancipation South
… the rice swamps of the Carolina lowcountry where freedmen and women offered alternate definitions, it investigates the spaces where black men, both freemen and freedmen, worked to define and deploy their ideas about manhood in the era of emancipation. During this period American society was thrown …
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The Role of Violence in Hunt County, Texas, during Reconstruction
… interim government officials, the arrival of Freedmen's Bureau agents, and in some parts the stationing of federal troops, conservative whites throughout the state became defiant toward the federal government and its policies. Some white southerners even went so far as to take up arms and …
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Patrick County, Virginia and the Civil War, 1860-1880
… did not gain much status over the decades, and freedmen owned scarcely any land nor personal property; neither group by 1880 had achieved literacy. In Patrick County the rich stayed rich and the planters remained the most influential.
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The Pompeii of Kansas: Race, Environment, and Memory in Quindaro, 1982-1991
… Wyandot people, white Free Staters, and Black freedmen. The landfill threatened to destroy the physical remains of this history. The contest over the Quindaro landfill should be understood beyond the limitations of a localized phenomenon. Prior scholarship in the field of environmental justice …
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Hair as a literary feature in Petronius' Satyrica
… as a mark of the social status of slaves and freedmen (Schmeling 2011), Trimalchio's inability to accept the loss of his hair and move on reflects his failure to move successfully from his slave status to that of a truly free man; thus his hair reflects his occupation of a limbo between …
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Striking Resemblance: Kentucky, Tennessee, Black Codes and Readjustment, 1865-1866
… to pass additional laws which applied to solely freedmen following the Civil War; however, due to Tennessee's position as a former Confederate state, its efforts were thwarted. These aspirations show Kentucky and Tennessee's desire to maintain the antebellum status quo and do not represent the …
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Storer College: A Hope for Redemption in the Shadow of Slavery, 1865 - 1955
… should be the primary focus for improving freedmen in the Shenandoah Valley. Storer College was first established in West Virginia by the Free Will Baptists Home Mission Society through its Shenandoah Mission center, as the Harper’s Ferry Mission School in 1865. In time, the institution …
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Educating for freedom: Northern whites and the origins of Black education in the South, 1862-1875
… northerners to raise millions of dollars for freedmen’s schools. It also seeks to understand the impact of those ideas on the work of rival freedmen’s aid societies, on teachers, curriculum, Freedmen's Bureau, southern whites, and on the freedmen themselves. Both the ideologies and the reality …
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Yellowing the Logarithm: How Money Solved the Problem of Freedom
… York Representative Clinton Merriam called upon freedmen in his defense of the U.S. dollar by suggesting it as "the first thing they ever earned they could call their own, the first thing, save our flag, that stood before them a symbol of their freedom." Between these two poles, this dissertation …
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“a Lonely Wandering Refugee”: Displaced Whites In The Trans-Mississippi West During The American Civil War, 1861-1868
… the U.S. and Confederate governments, and the Freedmen’s Bureau to local aid organizations in Missouri and Arkansas. Through an analysis of both Union and Confederate army records, Freedmen’s Bureau records, personal correspondence of local citizens, local and national newspapers, and regional …
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Education for All: The Freedmen's Bureau Schools in Richmond and Petersburg, 1865 - 1870
This study examines the development of Freedmen's Bureau schools in Central Virginia at the end of the Civil War. Under the watchful eye of Ralza Manly, Superintendent of the Virginia Freedmen's Bureau education division, establishing schools for freed slaves faced innumerable challenges ranging …
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