The Black family in slavery and freedom, 1750-1925 / Herbert G. Gutman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gutman, Herbert G. (Herbert George), 1928-1985.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Vintage ; V-451.

Vintage ; V-451

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American families--History.

African American families.

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

History.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxviii, 664 pages, 38 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, 1976.

Summary:

An exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War.

Contents:

Part One. The Birthpangs of a World. Send Me Some of the Children's Hair. Because She Was My Cousin. Take Root There or Nowhere: I. Take Root There or Nowhere: II. Aunts and Uncles and Swap-Dog Kin. Somebody Knew My Name. To See His Grand Son Samuel Die. Taken from Us by Force

g. Part Two. Deep as the River. Let Not Man Put Asunder. Like it Was.

Notes:

"Originally published by Pantheon Books, a Division of Random House, Inc., in September 1976."

"Photograph on cover shows five generations of one family on Smith's plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0394724518 :

OCLC:

21405369