In our next social history look at the American Revolution in Virginia, we feature four books on African American history. “Slavery and Freedom” investigates the results of the Revolution on slave and free black families in the Chesapeake and elsewhere and the development of autonomous black communities. “Water from the Rock” describes the social and military...
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In our three blogs on the American Revolution in Virginia social history, we turn first to women’s studies, then African American and lastly religious history. In “Revolutionary Mothers” we see the participation of women in the Revolution with the concepts of women’s studies. “Women of the Republic” focuses on the political, while “Liberty’s Daughters” focuses...
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Virginia’s racial New South, Jim Crow and Desegregation begins with six books. “Before Jim Crow” addresses the post-Civil War politics of race and “Freedpeople in the Tobacco South” examines the political economy in 24 Virginia counties. “Managing White Supremacy” investigates race, politics and citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia through the first half of the 20th...
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Our look at African-American Virginia History begins with two general surveys, “‘Don’t Grieve After Me’: The Black Experience in Virginia, 1619-1986” and the earlier WPA Virginia Writer’s Project reprint, “The Negro in Virginia”. Two complementary volumes on politics, both published by the UVA Press, but half a century apart follow, “The Negro in Virginia Politics,...
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Virginia’s Gilded Age New South is introduced in five books. New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, encompasses American political, economic, and cultural history 1865 to 1905, then Origins of the New South looks at the time period as a political history including Virginia, and The Promise of the New South treats economic and cultural...
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Here are four histories of free Blacks in Virginia highlighting self reliant communities in a slave society. Of course, Virginia’s free African Americans have a history dating from 1619 with their importation as “servants” with subsequent freedom and voting rights in the 1600s. But these focus on the era of their substantial expansion and integration...
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