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Author:

Hansen, Joyce.

Title:

Bury me not in a land of slaves : African-Americans in the time of Reconstruction / Joyce Hansen.

Publisher:

F. Watts,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

160 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--History--1863-1877--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Social conditions--19th century--Juvenile literature.
Freedmen--United States--History--19th century--Juvenile literature.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Juvenile literature.
United States--Race relations--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Social conditions--19th century.
Race relations.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-152) and index.

Contents:

A house divided: Brief biography: Phillis Wheatley -- Free at last: Brief biography: Frederick Douglass -- Ties that bind -- The coming day: Brief biography: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois -- The freedmen's bureau: Brief biography: Martin R. Delany -- The south rises -- One more river to cross -- New battles -- Congress acts -- The new south -- Men of the people: Brief biography: John R. Lynch -- Educating the freedmen -- John Brown's body: Brief biography: Charlotte Forten Grimke -- Beginning of the end.

Summary:

An account of African-American life in the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War, based on first-person narratives, contemporary documents, and other historical sources.

ISBN:

9780531164631 (pbk.)
0531164632 (pbk.)
9780531115398 (lib. bdg.)
0531115399 (lib. bdg.)

LCCN:

99030040

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City) — 973 Han

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)