Freedom's First Generation : : Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890 / / Robert F. Engs.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Engs, Robert F.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Reconstructing America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Foreword to the Fordham University Press Edition --; Introduction --; I In Search of Freedom: Hampton During the War --; 1 Hampton on the Eve of War --; 2 Surviving Freedom: The Contraband and the Union Army, 1861–65 --; 3 Schoolhouse and Church: The Missionary Effort in Hampton, 1861–65 --; 4 Black Hampton’s New Majority --; II Reconstruction: Freedom Deferred --; 5 The Chaos of Peace --; 6 The Freedmen’s Bureau and Johnsonian Reconstruction, 1865–66 --; 7 The Emasculated Bureau: Black Hampton and the Freedmen’s Bureau, 1867–68 --; III Freedom’s Fleeting Triumph --; 8 Black Hampton and Armstrong’s Institute --; 9 Black Hampton: A Propertied Community --; 10 Black Hampton: A Social and Political Community --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Bibliographic Essay --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823291625; 9783111189604; 9783110707298
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823291625
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert F. Engs.

In this age of affirmative action and increasing complexity in black-white relations, this pioneering study of Hampton, Virginia, tells the story of what race relations in postbellum America “might have been.” Here, if only for a time, the promises of Emancipation and Reconstruction were fulfilled. Why was the American Dream realized by blacks in Hampton and not elsewhere? Engs follows a community of freedmen over a thirty-year period to answer this compelling question. "Engs deserves credit for the sophistication and scope of his study and for his attention to the subtle and paradoxical. The questions addressed, the logical scope of the book, the depth of research, and the author's crisp writing style contribute to making this book a major addition to the literature."-Journal of American History