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Free men in an age of servitude three generations of a black family / Lee H. Warner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1992.Description: 1 online resource (177 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813164861
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E185 .F744 1992
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Contents:
Subject: Freedom did not solve the problems of the Proctor family. Nor did money, recognition, or powerful supporters. As free blacks in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America, three generations of Proctor men were permanently handicapped by the social structures of their time and their place. They subscribed to the Western, middle-class value system that taught that hard work, personal rectitude, and maintenance of family life would lead to happiness and prosperity. But for them it did not --
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction E185.93.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn900345322

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Antonio the Soldier; 2. George the Entrepreneur; 3. Work and Family; 4. Reversal; 5. George's Defeat; 6. California; 7. George's Family; 8. John the Politician; 9. The End of Reconstruction; 10. Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.

Freedom did not solve the problems of the Proctor family. Nor did money, recognition, or powerful supporters. As free blacks in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America, three generations of Proctor men were permanently handicapped by the social structures of their time and their place. They subscribed to the Western, middle-class value system that taught that hard work, personal rectitude, and maintenance of family life would lead to happiness and prosperity. But for them it did not --

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