Freedom's First Generation Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890,9780823223640

Freedom's First Generation Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890

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ISBN13: 9780823223640
ISBN10: 0823223647
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-11-01
Publisher(s): Fordham University Press
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Summary

In this pioneering study of the African-American experience in slavery and freedom, Robert F. Engs chronicles the history of Hampton, Virginia, from slavery and the Civil War to Reconstruction and the resurgence of white political control in the 1890s.

Author Biography

Robert F. Engs is Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Foreword to the Fordham University Press Edition xi
Introduction xv
I IN SEARCH OF FREEDOM: HAMPTON DURING THE WAR 1(62)
1 Hampton on the Eve of War
15(2)
2 Surviving Freedom: The Contraband and the Union Army, 1861-65
17(15)
3 Schoolhouse and Church: The Missionary Effort in Hampton, 1861-65
32(19)
4 Black Hampton's New Majority
51(12)
II RECONSTRUCTION: FREEDOM DEFERRED 63(46)
5 The Chaos of Peace
67(12)
6 The Freedmen's Bureau and Johnsonian Reconstruction, 1865-66
79(16)
7 The Emasculated Bureau: Black Hampton and the Freedmen's Bureau, 1867-68
95(14)
III FREEDOM'S FLEETING TRIUMPH 109(46)
8 Black Hampton and Armstrong's Institute
111(17)
9 Black Hampton: A Propertied Community
128(14)
10 Black Hampton: A Social and Political Community
142(13)
Epilogue 155(5)
Notes 160(18)
Bibliographic Essay 178(7)
Index 185

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